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TITLE:
NetBSD hack Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35631

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35631/

DESCRIPTION:
NetBSD has acknowledged some vulnerabilities in hack, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

1) A boundary error within the "gethdate()" function when processing
the "PATH" environment variable can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow.

2) A boundary error within the "main()" function when processing the
"GENOCIDED" environment variable in wizard mode can be exploited to
cause a buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow the execution of arbitrary code
with the privileges of the "games" group.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository. See vendor advisory for details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
NetBSD credits David A. Holland.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
NetBSD-SA2009-007:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-007.txt.asc

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