Title: Multiple Linux Vendor gpm Setgid Vulnerability
Severity: LOW
Description:
A vulnerability exists in the gpm-root program, part of the gpm package. This package is used to enable mice on the consoles of many popular Linux distributions. The problem is a design error, caused when a programmer chose to attempt to revert to the running users groups, after having called setuid to the users id already. The setgid call fails, and the process maintains the groups the gpm-root program is running as. This is usually the 'root' group.
This vulnerability requires the user have console access.
Affected Products:
- Alessandro Rubini gpm 1.18.1
- Alessandro Rubini gpm 1.19.0
- Debian Linux 2.0.0
- Debian Linux 2.1.0
- Debian Linux 2.2.0
- Debian Linux 2.2.0pre potato
- RedHat Linux 5.1.0
- RedHat Linux 5.2.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0
- RedHat Linux 6.1.0 i386
- RedHat Linux 6.2.0 i386
- S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.1.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.2.0
- S.u.S.E. Linux 6.3.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.1
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.2
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.3
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 6.0.4
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