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grsecurity "expand_stack()" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23713
Release Date: 2007-01-12
Last Update: 2007-01-23
Popularity: 8,288 views

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

Software:grsecurity 2.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in grsecurity, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error related to the "expand_stack()" function, which may allow execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

The vulnerability only affects systems with the "SEGMEXEC" feature enabled.

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