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GNATS local privilege elevation

Affected packages
gnats <= 3.113.1_9

Details

VuXML ID 4d837296-cc28-11d8-a54c-02e0185c0b53
Discovery 2003-06-21
Entry 2004-07-02

GNATS 3.113.1 contains multiple buffer overflows, through which a local attacker could gain elevated privileges on the system.

References

FreeBSD PR ports/56006
Message 20040625164231.7437.qmail@www.securityfocus.com
URL http://secunia.com/advisories/9096
URL http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/gnats.html
URL http://www.osvdb.org/2190
URL http://www.osvdb.org/4600
URL http://www.osvdb.org/4601
URL http://www.osvdb.org/4607
URL http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5CP0N0UAAA.html
URL http://x82.inetcop.org/h0me/adv1sor1es/INCSA.2003-0x82-018-GNATS-bt.txt

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