Bug 2259540 - TRIAGE CVE-2006-2916 arts: does not check the return value of the setuid which prevents artsd from dropping privileges [fedora-all]
Summary: TRIAGE CVE-2006-2916 arts: does not check the return value of the setuid whi...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: arts
Version: 39
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2006-2916
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Reported: 2024-01-22 09:11 UTC by Rohit Keshri
Modified: 2024-01-22 22:05 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-01-22 22:05:02 UTC
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Description Rohit Keshri 2024-01-22 09:11:15 UTC
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259536

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Rohit Keshri 2024-01-22 09:11:19 UTC
Use the following template to for the 'fedpkg update' request to submit an
update for this issue as it contains the top-level parent bug(s) as well as
this tracking bug.  This will ensure that all associated bugs get updated
when new packages are pushed to stable.

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# bugfix, security, enhancement, newpackage (required)
type=security

# low, medium, high, urgent (required)
severity=medium

# testing, stable
request=testing

# Bug numbers: 1234,9876
bugs=2259536,2259540

# Description of your update
notes=Security fix for [PUT CVEs HERE]

# Enable request automation based on the stable/unstable karma thresholds
autokarma=True
stable_karma=3
unstable_karma=-3

# Automatically close bugs when this marked as stable
close_bugs=True

# Suggest that users restart after update
suggest_reboot=False

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Additionally, you may opt to use the bodhi web interface to submit updates:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/new

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2024-01-22 22:05:02 UTC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2916

> Product is only vulnerable when running setuid root
[snip]
> OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM RED HAT (08/16/2006)
> Not vulnerable. We do not ship aRts as setuid root on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

I can echo that here:
aRts in Fedora is not installed as suid root, hence not vulnerable. No patch is needed.


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