CVE-2004-0850 Information

Description

Star before 1.5_alpha46 does not drop the effective user ID (euid) before calling external programs which could allow local users to gain privileges by modifying the RSH environment variable to reference a malicious program.

Reference

http://securitytracker.com/id?1011195 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297