Debian Linux Security Advisory 3221-1 - 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.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3221-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
April 12, 2015 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : das-watchdog
CVE ID : CVE-2015-2831
Debian Bug : 781806
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.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.0-2+deb7u1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.0-3.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your das-watchdog packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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