Title: Itetris Privileged Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Itetris, or "Intelligent Tetris", is a clone of the popular Tetris puzzle game for linux systems. The svgalib version of Itetris is installed setuid root so that it may access video hardware when run by a regular user. Itetris contains a vulnerability which may allow unprivileged users to execute arbitrary commands as root.
Itetris uses the system() function to execute gunzip when uncompressing font files. Unfortuntely it does so in a very insecure way -- relying on gunzip being located in directories specified in the PATH environment variable. It is possible to exploit this vulnerability if an attacker sets PATH to include a directory under his/her control in which a "gunzip" is found instead of or before the real location, eg:
PATH=/tmp/hacker:$PATH
Any program with the filename "gunzip" in /tmp/hacker would then be executed with Itetris' effective privileges. This vulnerability can be exploited to gain super user access and completely compromise the victim host.
Affected Products:
- Michael Glickman itetris 1.6.1
- Michael Glickman itetris 1.6.2
References:
- Michael Glickman: ITetris Homepage
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