On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 12:05:23PM +0300, Security Team wrote: > A vulnerability has been discovered in the game spider, an application > contained in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. > The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges by > overflowing the -s parameter. > > Impact: > The attacker can gain group privileges. By default "games". Neither Debian stable nor unstable contain any spider binaries setuid or setgid. Debian Stable - spider 1.1-9: uml201:~# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/*spider* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53628 Dec 13 2001 /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54396 Dec 13 2001 /usr/X11R6/bin/small.spider lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27 Oct 4 19:23 /usr/X11R6/bin/spider -> /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider Debian Unstable - spider 1.1-11: skx@lappy:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/*spider* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 61048 2004-09-04 12:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/round.spider -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57624 2004-09-04 12:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/small.spider lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2004-10-04 20:10 /usr/X11R6/bin/spider -> round.spider You can find a list of setuid/setgid binaries contained in Debian stable and unstable at: http://www.setuid.org/ Steve -- # The Debian Security Audit Project. http://www.debian.org/security/audit
