Synaesthesia Lets Local Users View Arbitrary Files
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1013206
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1013206
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CVE Reference: CAN-2005-0070
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 16 2005
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Impact: Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information
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Version(s): 2.2 and prior versions
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in synaesthesia. A local user can read arbitrary files on the target system.
The software performs certain file operations in 'main.cc' and 'sound.cc' with elevated privileges. A local user can exploit this to view the contents of arbitrary files.
Erik Sjolund and Devin Carraway discovered this flaw.
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Impact: A local user can read arbitrary files on the target system.
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Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
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Vendor URL: www.logarithmic.net/pfh/Synaesthesia (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Access control error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:49:57 -0500
Subject: [none]
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CVE: CAN-2005-0070
A vulnerability was reported in synaesthesia. A local user can read arbitrary files
on the target system.
Erik Sjolund and Devin Carraway discovered this flaw.
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