Title: GNOME espeaker Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
A buffer overflow vulnerabilityin GNOME's shared libraries handling of the 'espeaker' command line argument may allow local users to attack setuid binaries linked against these libraries to obtain root access.
Calling a program linked against GNOME with the command like arguments '--enable-sound --espeaker=<80 byte buffer>' results in a buffer overflow.
One known setuid root program linked against these libraries in the Mandrake 6.0 distribution is '/usr/games/nethack'.
It is likely this is a vulnerability in the libesd shared library instead of libgnome. In that case esound 0.2.8 would be vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- GNOME Gnome Libs 1.0.8
- MandrakeSoft Linux Mandrake 6.0.0
- RedHat Linux 6.0.0
References:
- GNOME: GNOME Homepage
- MandrakeSoft: Mandrake Linux Updates
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