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FreeBSD : cdrdao -- unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability (d51a7e6e-c546-11d9-9aed-000e0c2e438a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 19136

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The developers of cdrdao report that there is a potential root exploit in the software. In order to be able to succesfully exploit this vulnerability cdrdao must be installed setuid root. When succesfully exploited a local user might get escalated privileges. By default this port is not installed setuid root.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://sourceforge.net/p/legacy_/forum/forum.php?forum_id=466399

http://www.nessus.org/u?c498ae5e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 19136

File Name: freebsd_pkg_d51a7e6ec54611d99aed000e0c2e438a.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:cdrdao, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/13/2005

Reference Information

Secunia: 15354