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Secunia Advisory SA8953

Mandrake update for kon2

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SA8953

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Release Date

2003-06-06

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

Mandrake Corporate Server 2.x

Mandrake Linux 8.x

Mandrake Linux 9.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2002-1155 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Mandrake has issued updated packages for kon2. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the command line parsing code. This could be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which allows execution of arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

Solution
Updated packages:
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Deep Links
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Mandrake update for kon2

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