Debian DSA-3221-1 : das-watchdog - security update

Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the XAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon to ensure a realtime process won't hang the machine. A local user can exploit this flaw to escalate his privileges and execute arbitrary code as root. %NASLMINLEVEL...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3221-1 (das-watchdog - security update)

Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the XAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon to ensure a realtime process won OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb3221.nasl 6609 2017-07-07 12:05:59Z cfischer $ Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3221-1 using nvtg...