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<glsa id="200409-11">
  <title>star: Suid root vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    star contains a suid root vulnerability which could potentially grant
    unauthorized root access to an attacker.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">star</product>
  <announced>2004-09-07</announced>
  <revised count="03">2006-05-30</revised>
  <bug>61797</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-arch/star" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.5_alpha46</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.5_alpha46</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    star is an enhanced tape archiver, much like tar, that is recognized
    for it's speed as well as it's enhanced mt/rmt support.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A suid root vulnerability exists in versions of star that are
    configured to use ssh for remote tape access.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    Attackers with local user level access could potentially gain root
    level access.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All star users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv "&gt;=app-arch/star-1.5_alpha46"
    # emerge "&gt;=app-arch/star-1.5_alpha46"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/star-users/2004-August/000239.html">Star Mailing List Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0850">CVE-2004-0850</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-09-03T20:05:50Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-09-04T19:37:00Z">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-09-07T20:59:47Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>
