Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 23, 2004· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2004-0850
CVE-2004-0850
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.
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Affected products
2- cpe:2.3:a:joerg_schilling:star_tape_archiver:1.5_a45:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
5- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/339089nvdPatchThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/11141nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-11.xmlnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17297nvd
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