Description
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.
References
- 1011195 vdb-entry
- star-ssh-gain-privileges(17297) vdb-entry
- VU#339089 third-party-advisory
- GLSA-200409-11 vendor-advisory
- 11141 vdb-entry