Bug 138117

Summary:	games-arcade/emilia-pinball: 0.3.1 privilege escalation vuln (CVE-2006-2196)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) <falco>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	games
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2196
Whiteboard:	B3? [ebuild] Falco
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-26 15:26:21 UTC

SA 20778 :


Software:	Emilia Pinball 0.x

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Pinball, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error when loading compiled plugins. This can be exploited to cause the application to load plugins from user-controlled directories without dropping privileges.

Successful exploitation may allow the user to perform certain actions with privileges of the "games" user.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.3.1. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Restrict access to trusted users only.

Some Linux vendors have released fixed packages.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Steve Kemp

Original Advisory:
Debian:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1102

Comment 1 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-26 15:40:49 UTC

Hi games team, a patch is available on debian. Unfortunately, as usual, their patch concerns many other issues.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-06-26 15:45:38 UTC

not like we're vuln anyways ;)

Comment 3 Raphael Marichez (Falco) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-26 15:55:20 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> not like we're vuln anyways ;)
> 

mmm.... yes, that's a silly thing. Forget that.
Gentoo rulez :)

mv bug138117 /dev/trash (feel free to reopen if i'm wrong)