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Petris Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18362
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Popularity: 6,298 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Petris 1.x

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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a vulnerability in Petris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the handling of environment variables when processing highscores. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges on systems, where the game has been installed setuid or setgid (typically setgid "games").

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