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rPath rMake Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in rPath rMake, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) or potentially to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the rMake build tool incorrectly creating the device name "/dev/zero" with the device numbers of the "/dev/port" device. This can be exploited to gain read-write access to "/dev/port".

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.0.11. Prior versions may also be affected.

Update to:

rmake=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.0.11.1-2-0.1

rmake-proxy=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.0.11.1-2-0.1

rmake-repos=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/1.0.11.1-2-0.1

You can check it out from Secunia, here.

Published Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:09 PM by David Marshall
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