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Debian luxman Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14582
Release Date: 2005-03-15
Popularity: 8,882 views

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

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0

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Description:
Debian has issued an update for luxman. This fixes a vulnerability, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling arguments passed to the "-f" command line option and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing an overly long string.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

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