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TITLE:
SplitVT "xprop" Privilege Escalation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29080

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29080/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
SplitVT 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/17749/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in SplitVT, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the program maintaining group
privileges while executing the "xprop" utility. This can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain "utmp" group privileges.

The security issue is reported in versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.6. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Restrict local access to trusted users only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Debian credits Mike Ashton.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1500

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