CVE-2004-0395

Publication date 6 December 2004

Last updated 17 July 2025


Ubuntu priority

Description

The xatitv program in the gatos package does not properly drop root privileges when the configuration file does not exist, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a system call.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gatos 7.04 feisty
Fixed 0.0.5-16ubuntu1
6.10 edgy
Fixed 0.0.5-16ubuntu1
6.06 LTS dapper
Fixed 0.0.5-16ubuntu1


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