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Local privilege escalation vulnerability in XFree86
| Package(s): | xf86 xfree86 | CVE #(s): | |||||||||||||
| Created: | September 18, 2002 | Updated: | October 27, 2002 | ||||||||||||
| Description: | XFree86 version 4.2.1 fixes a problem in Xlib that made it possible to execute arbitrary code in privileged clients. Other libraries are dynamically loaded by libX11.so as needed. When linking against a setuid program, arbitrary code could be loaded and executed from a pathname controlled by the user. | ||||||||||||||
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