Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs, which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2004-09-24T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-08T00:31:47.903Z
Reserved: 2004-09-13T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2004-0850
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2004-12-23T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2024-11-20T23:49:34.050
Link: CVE-2004-0850
Redhat
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