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Orville Write Environment Variable Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9085
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Release Date:
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2003-06-20
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Popularity:
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8,070 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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| Software: | Orville write 2.x
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Description:
Debian has reported a vulnerability in Orville write, 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 handling of multiple environment variables (eg. "HOME"). This may be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code with higher privileges than intended.
A malicious person may gain "root" privileges or group "tty" privileges depending on the configuration selected during installation.
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