Package: osh
Version: 1.7-14
Severity: critical
Tags: security
Justification: root security hole


Due to a bug in the environment variable substitution code it is
possible to inject environment variables such as LD_PRELOAD and gain a
root shell.

Fully-functional local root exploit here:

http://pulltheplug.org/users/core/files/x_osh3.sh

Kind Regards,
Charles Stevenson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-corezion
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages osh depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-2    Log rotation utility

osh recommends no packages.

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