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TITLE:
cdrdao Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15354

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15354/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
cdrdao 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5096/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error, which may be
exploited to gain root privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that cdrdao has been installed
setuid root.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.0.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2171

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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