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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200409-17">
+ <title>SUS: Local root vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ SUS contains a string format bug that could lead to local privilege
+ escalation.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">SUS</product>
+ <announced>2004-09-14</announced>
+ <revised count="02">2006-05-22</revised>
+ <bug>63927</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="app-admin/sus" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.0.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ SUS is a utility that allows regular users to be able to execute
+ certain commands as root.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Leon Juranic found a bug in the logging functionality of SUS that can
+ lead to local privilege escalation. A format string vulnerability
+ exists in the log() function due to an incorrect call to the syslog()
+ function.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ An attacker with local user privileges can potentially exploit this
+ vulnerability to gain root access.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All SUS users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge sync
+
+ # emerge -pv "&gt;=app-admin/sus-2.0.2-r1"
+ # emerge "&gt;=app-admin/sus-2.0.2-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://pdg.uow.edu.au/sus/CHANGES">SUS ChangeLog</uri>
+ <uri link="http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/375109/2004-09-11/2004-09-17/0">BugTraq Advisory</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1469">CVE-2004-1469</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-09-13T21:20:06Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-09-14T00:10:33Z">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-09-14T10:08:46Z">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>