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TITLE:
Samhain Database Update Code Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13130

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13130/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Samhain 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/4221/
Samhain 1.8.x
http://secunia.com/product/3074/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Samhain, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the database
update code. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow when a
malicious directory is checked with Samhain.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with
the privileges of the Samhain process, but requires that the command
line option "-t update" is used.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.8.9 through 2.0.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.2:
http://la-samhna.de/samhain/samhain-current.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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