Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in NetBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
NetBSD 64-bit Mode Sanity Check Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA49516
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RELEASE DATE:
2012-06-14
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in NetBSD, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA49518
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository (please see the vendor advisory for
details).
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Rafal Wojtczuk.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2012-003.txt.asc
OTHER REFERENCES:
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EXPLOIT:
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