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wicd: local privilege escalation

Package(s):

wicd

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-2095

Created:

April 24, 2012

Updated:

April 25, 2012

Description:

From the Fedora advisory:

The wicd daemon suffered from a local privilege escalation flaw due to incomplete input sanitization. A local attacker sould use this to inject arbitrary code through the D-Bus interface.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2012-5909	2012-04-24
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-5923	2012-04-24
Gentoo	201206-08	2012-06-21

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