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Gentoo nethack / falconseye / slashem Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA19376
Release Date: 2006-03-24
Last Update: 2006-03-28
Popularity: 9,318 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

OS:Gentoo Linux

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Description:
Gentoo has reported some vulnerabilities in the nethack / falconseye / slashem packages, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to NetHack, Slash'EM, and Falcon's Eye games being incompatible with the system used for managing games on Gentoo Linux. This can be exploited by a user, who is a member of the "games" group, to modify the state data, create and overwrite files, and execute arbitrary code with the permissions of other players.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in the following packages:
* games-roguelike/nethack version 3.4.3-r1 and prior.
* games-roguelike/falconseye version 1.9.4a and prior.
* games-roguelike/slashem version 0.0.760 and prior.

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