Title: Majordomo Local resend Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
It is possible to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges through exploiting the majordomo binary, "resend". A setuid root wrapper program calls resend after setuid()ing and setgid()ing to lowered (but still elevated) privileges which it runs resend with. resend contains a call to open() (it is a perl script), which can be made to execute shell commands if a '|' is the first character it is passed, so if the first parameter to resend is '@|shell;commands;here', the shell commands will be executed with resend's privileges.
Affected Products:
- Great Circle Associates Majordomo 1.94.4
References:
- Great Circle Associates: Majordomo Homepage
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