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.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2004-07-08T04:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:14.380Z
Reserved: 2004-04-13T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2004-0395
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2004-12-06T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2004-0395
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