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Spider Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9741
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Release Date:
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2003-09-16
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Popularity:
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5,303 views
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Critical:
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Not 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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Unpatched
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| Software: | spider 1.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in spider allowing malicious users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that it is possible to cause overflows due to improper handling of the environment variables "HOME", "OPENWINHOME", and "XVIEWHOME". This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with group "games" privileges.
Version 1.1 has been reported vulnerable.
Change Page:
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