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libgnomesu: privilege escalation

Package(s):

libgnomesu

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-1946

Created:

June 27, 2011

Updated:

June 29, 2011

Description:

From the openSUSE advisory:

The libgnomesu pam backend did not check the return value of the setuid() functions. Local users could exploit that to gain root privileges

Alerts:

openSUSE

2011-06-27

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