Privilege Escalation via User-Supplied Variables in KisMAC

CVE-2003-0704 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

KisMAC before 0.05d trusts user-supplied variables when chown'ing files or directories, which allows local users to gain privileges via the $DRIVER_KEXT environment variable in (1) viha_driver.sh, (2) macjack_load.sh, (3) airojack_load.sh, (4) setuid_enable.sh, (5) setuid_disable.sh, and using a "similar technique" for (6) viha_prep.sh and (7) viha_unprep.sh.

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