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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-12-23T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-11T01:30:32.167

Link: CVE-2004-0850

cve-icon Redhat

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