EUVD-2000-0228

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gpm 1.18.1/1.19,Debian 2.x,RedHat 6.x,S.u.S.E 5.3/6.x gpm Setgid Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1069/info A vulnerability exists in the gpm-root program, part of the gpm package. This package is used to enable mice on the consoles of many popular Linux distributions. The problem is a design error, caused when a...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gpm (MDKSA-2000:002)

A security bug was found in gpm-root; the bug can be exploited to provide local users with root access. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Mandrake Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2000:002. The text itself ...

Debian DSA-095-1 : gpm - local root vulnerability

The package 'gpm' contains the gpm-root program, which can be used to create mouse-activated menus on the console. Among other problems, the gpm-root program contains a format string vulnerability, which allows an attacker to gain root privileges. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security,...

[SECURITY] [DSA-095-1] gpm (gpm-root) format string vulnerabilities

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-095-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Robert van der Meulen December 27, 2001 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : gpm Problem...

CVE-2000-0229

The CVE-2000-0229 issue affects the gpm package, specifically gpm-root, which does not properly drop privileges. Local users can gain elevated group privileges by starting a utility from gpm-root, with the gpm-root running with root group privileges and a failed setgid behavior. Impact is local p...

CVE-2000-0229

gpm-root in the gpm package does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by starting a utility from gpm-root...

CVE-2000-0229

gpm-root in the gpm package does not properly drop privileges, which allows local users to gain privileges by starting a utility from gpm-root...

gpm-root

Hi! I've sent report about the following security hole to the authors of gpm, but they seemed to ignore the problem. The problem applies to every gpm version known by me, for example 1.18.1 and 1.19.0. To exploit this problem, gpm-root must be running on a machine and the user needs both login to...