DSA-3221 das-watchdog - security update
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Información sobre el sistema
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Software afectado |
Debian |
Descripción
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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 |
Identificadores estándar
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Valor |
CVE |
CVE-2015-2831 and DSA-3221. |