Bug#298169: mpg321 is setuid root and can be used to overwrite arbitrary files using -w

2005-03-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
Its not s[ug]id anything on the three machines I just checked. Are you sure you didn't set that bit yourself? Justin On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 02:15:46AM -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Package: mpg321 > Version: 0.2.10.3 > Severity: critical > Tags: security > > mpg312 is installed setuid root pr

Bug#298169: mpg321 is setuid root and can be used to overwrite arbitrary files using -w

2005-03-05 Thread Chris Wedgwood
Package: mpg321 Version: 0.2.10.3 Severity: critical Tags: security mpg312 is installed setuid root probably to do scheduler magic or whatever (didn't check). Anyhow, this means you can invoke it using "mpg321 -w /etc/passwd foo/mp3" or whatever. For now I would suggest we remove the suid bit (c