Cactus shell-lock program allows any user to execute commands with root privileges
| cactus-shell-lock-root-privs (3358) |  High Risk |
Description:
Shell-lock program allows any user to execute commands with root privileges. The shell-lock program featured the ability to create SUID binaries on systems that do not honor SUID shell scripts and also to protect against the security problems with SUID shell scripts. An attacker could use shell-lock to compile programs that are SUID root and could execute any program with root privileges.
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- @stake, Inc./L0pht Security Advisory 10/04/99: Cactus Software Shell-Lock.
- CVE-1999-1541: shell-lock in Cactus Software Shell Lock allows local users to read or modify decoded shell files before they are executed, via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
Platforms Affected:
- Digital OSF 1.0
- Digital OSF 2.0
- IBM AIX
- Linux Kernel
- SCO SCO Unix
- SGI IRIX
- Sun Solaris
- Sun SunOS
- WindRiver BSDOS
- HP-UX
Reported:
Oct 04, 1999
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