Gentoo alert 201201-15 (ktsuss)

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[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 201201-15 ] ktsuss: Privilege escalation 
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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:05:24 -0500
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201201-15
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 Severity: High
    Title: ktsuss: Privilege escalation
     Date: January 27, 2012
     Bugs: #381115
       ID: 201201-15

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Synopsis
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Two vulnerabilities have been found in ktsuss, allowing local attackers
to gain escalated privileges.

Background
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ktsuss is a simple, graphical version of su written in C and GTK+.

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  x11-misc/ktsuss               <= 1.4                  Vulnerable!
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     NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
           to another package if one is available or wait for the
           existing packages to be marked stable by their
           architecture maintainers.

Description
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Two vulnerabilities have been found in ktuss:

* Under specific circumstances, ktsuss skips authentication and fails
  to change the effective UID back to the real UID (CVE-2011-2921).
* The GTK interface spawned by the ktsuss binary is run as root
  (CVE-2011-2922).

Impact
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A local attacker could gain escalated privileges and use the
"GTK_MODULES" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code
with root privileges.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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Gentoo discontinued support for ktsuss. We recommend that users unmerge
ktsuss:

  # emerge --unmerge "x11-misc/ktsuss"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2011-2921
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2921
[ 2 ] CVE-2011-2922
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2922

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-15.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2012 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5