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<glsa id="200803-05">
  <title>SplitVT: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability in SplitVT may allow local users to gain escalated
    privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">splitvt</product>
  <announced>2008-03-03</announced>
  <revised count="01">2008-03-03</revised>
  <bug>211240</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/splitvt" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.6.6-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.6-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    SplitVT is a program for splitting terminals into two shells.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Mike Ashton reported that SplitVT does not drop group privileges before
    executing the xprop utility.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain the "utmp"
    group privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All SplitVT users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/splitvt-1.6.6-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0162">CVE-2008-0162</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-02-26T20:35:01Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-02-26T20:35:10Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-02-29T11:02:58Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
