Title: wmtv local root Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
wmtv, a video4linux TV player for windowmaker, is installed setuid root. This program can run an external command when you double click on the TV window, with the command specified by the -e command line option. Since the program is suid root this command is run with root privileges, allowing for extremely trivial exploit.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 systems which have wmtv installed are vulnerable to this, other distributionts may suffer from it as well.
Affected Products:
- wliang wmtv 0.6.5
References:
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