Title: Multiple Linux vendor imwheel Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
A vulnerability exists in the 'imwheel' package for Linux. This package is known to be vulnerable to a buffer overrun in its handling of the HOME environment variable. By supplying a sufficiently long string containing machine executable code, the imwheel program can be caused to run arbitrary commands as root. This is due to a setuid root perl script named 'imwheel-solo' which invokes the imwheel program with effective UID 0.
Affected Products:
- Halloween Linux 4.0.0
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 sparc
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 alpha
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 sparc
References:
- RedHat: Updates, Fixes, and Errata Page
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