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xpcd Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14248
Release Date: 2005-02-11
Popularity: 6,341 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:xpcd 2.x

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Description:
Erik Sjölund has reported some vulnerabilities in xpcd, which may be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to some boundary errors in the functions "main()" in "view.c", "CompleteAction()" in "complete.c" and "load_image()" in "plug-0.54.c". This may be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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