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LibAST: privilege escalation

Package(s):libast CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0224
Created:January 30, 2006 Updated:February 15, 2006
Description: Michael Jennings discovered an exploitable buffer overflow in the configuration engine of LibAST. The vulnerability can be exploited to gain escalated privileges if the application using LibAST is setuid/setgid and passes a specifically crafted filename to LibAST's configuration engine.
Alerts:
Debian DSA-976-1 2006-02-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:029 2006-02-02
Gentoo 200601-14 2006-01-29
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