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Red Hat update for kon2
Secunia Advisory:	SA8938	Advisory Toolbox: Issue ticket Save in to-do list Mark as handled Exploit information Download as PDF Review actions Add comment
Release Date:	2003-06-04
Popularity:	6,113 views

Critical:	Less critical
Impact:	Privilege escalation
Where:	Local system
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	RedHat Linux 7.1 RedHat Linux 7.2 RedHat Linux 7.3 RedHat Linux 8.0 RedHat Linux 9

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CVE reference:	CVE-2002-1155

Description: Red Hat 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: -- Red Hat Linux 7.1 -- SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.1.1.i386.rpm -- Red Hat Linux 7.2 -- SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.2.1.i386.rpm -- Red Hat Linux 7.3 -- SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.7.3.1.i386.rpm -- Red Hat Linux 8.0 -- SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-14.8.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-14.8.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-14.8.i386.rpm -- Red Hat Linux 9 -- SRPMS: ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/kon2-0.3.9b-16.9.src.rpm i386: ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/kon2-0.3.9b-16.9.i386.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/kon2-fonts-0.3.9b-16.9.i386.rpm Provided and/or discovered by: Janusz Niewiadomski Original Advisory: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-047.html

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