A local vulnerability was identified in hztty, which may be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. The flaw is due to an unspecified error, and could be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with "utmp" privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Erik Sjölund
ChangeLog
2005-02-10 : Initial release
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