TITLE:
Beagle "beagle-status" Command Execution Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA19278

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/19278/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Beagle 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/8771/

DESCRIPTION:
James McCaw has discovered a vulnerability in Beagle, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a
vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the "beagle-status" script running
the "beagle-info" script insecurely by giving preference to the copy
that is located within the user's current working directory. This can
be exploited to execute arbitrary commands by tricking the user to run
"beagle-status" from a directory that contains a malicious copy of
"beagle-info".

The vulnerability has been confirmed in version 0.2.2.1. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not run "beagle-status" from within non-trusted directories.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
James McCaw

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357392

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