x11amp bug

[trn () FLINET COM (Jeff Johnson)]

> x11 audio mpeg player (x11amp) version 0.65, when installed setuid root
> (as suggested by the README file), creates playlist files in ~/.x11amp
> while making 'root' the owner of these plaintext files (instead of the
> proper user). unfortunatelly, the program DOES follow symlinks, and
> overwriting for instance /etc/shadow is therefore trivial:
>
> mkdir ~/.x11amp
> ln -s /etc/shadow ~/.x11amp/ekl
>
> now run x11amp, get into the playlist menu, select 'ekl', mark all the
> entries and hit 'delete'. no matter if the prg crashes (it might),
> /etc/shadow is gone, anyway.
> -- End of excerpt from Automatic digest processor

you can also read files not owned by you, but I have not found a way to display
them yet.  But, if another user has a lot of mp3 files, fire up x11amp and
you'll be able to play them.  also, start x11amp with a VERY VERY VERY LONG
filename and it seg faults....  buffer overflow?

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