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Debian Security Advisory DSA 446-1 (synaesthesia)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to synaesthesia announced via advisory DSA 446-1.
Insight
Insight
During an audit, Ulf Harnhammar discovered a vulnerability in synaesthesia, a program which represents sounds visually. synaesthesia created its configuration file while holding root privileges, allowing a local user to create files owned by root and writable by the user's primary group. This type of vulnerability can usually be easily exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges by various means. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1-2.1woody1. The unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this problem, because synaesthesia is no longer setuid. We recommend that you update your synaesthesia package.
Solution
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20446-1