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Gentoo update for kon2
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA9033
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Release Date:
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2003-06-16
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Popularity:
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7,152 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: | Gentoo Linux 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2002-1155
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Description:
Gentoo has issued an update for kon2. This fixes 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:
Update Gentoo:
emerge sync
emerge kon2
emerge clean
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