Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-3221 das-watchdog - security update |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of theXAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon toensure a realtime process wont hang the machine. A local user canexploit this flaw to escalate his privileges and execute arbitrarycode as root. More info: https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3221 |
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