Title: X.Org X Window Server Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
The X.Org X Windows server is a windows server for UNIX, Linux, and variants. It is freely available and distributed publicly.
The X.Org X Window server is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability.
The problem occurs because the application improperly verifies an attacker's credentials before permitting access to the 'modulepath' and 'logfile' command-line options. Specifically, the application fails to validate the effective UID and the real UID.
A local attacker can exploit this issue to load arbitrary modules and execute them with superuser privileges or overwrite arbitrary files. This may facilitate a complete compromise of the affected computer.
Affected Products:
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 10.2.0 x86_64
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 2006.0.0 x86_64
- RedHat Fedora Core5
- S.u.S.E. Linux Personal 10.0.0 OSS
- S.u.S.E. Linux Professional 10.0.0 OSS
- Sun Solaris 10.0_x86
- Turbolinux Home
- Turbolinux Multimedia
- Turbolinux Personal
- Turbolinux Turbolinux 10 F...
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Desktop 10.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 10.0.0
- Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 10.0.0 x86
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 amd64
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 i386
- Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 5.0.0 4 powerpc
- X.org X11R6 6.9.0
- X.org X11R7 1.0.0
- X.org X11R7 1.0.1
References:
- Sun: Sun Alert ID: 102252
- US-CERT: Vulnerability Note VU#837857
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