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star: failure to drop privilege

Package(s):star CVE #(s):
Created:September 8, 2004 Updated:September 8, 2004
Description: Versions of star prior to 1.5alpha46 suffer from a failure to drop privileges which can lead to a local root exploit.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200409-11 2004-09-07
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