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Re: cdrecord local root exploit

From: Sean Davis <dive () endersgame net>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:10:09 -0400

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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