Bugtraq: Re: cdrecord local root exploit

[Sean Davis <dive () endersgame net>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 01:30:17AM -0000, newbug Tseng wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo "cdr-exp.sh -- CDRecord local exploit ( Tested on cdrecord-2.01-0.a27.2mdk + Mandrake10)"
> echo "Author    : newbug [at] chroot.org"
> echo "IRC       : irc.chroot.org #chroot"
> echo "Date      :09.09.2004"
I don't see how this is a bug in cdrecord. It's a bug in Mandrake, caused by
shipping cdrecord setuid root. You could do the same thing with CVS (set
CVS_RSH to /tmp/s) if your distribution was dumb enough to ship cvs setuid
root, I would think, yet that wouldn't be a bug in CVS.

-Sean

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