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Published: 06/12/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

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Steve Kemp discovered a vulnerability in xatitv, one of the programs in the gatos package, which is used to display video with certain ATI video cards xatitv is installed setuid root in order to gain direct access to the video hardware It normally drops root privileges after successfully initializing itself However, if initialization fails due t ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-509 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10437 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16273 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-509

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