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XFree86 Pixmap Allocation Handling Local Privilege Escalation Issue

Title : XFree86 Pixmap Allocation Handling Local Privilege Escalation Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1712
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2495
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-09-12

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in XFree86, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1712
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-07.xml

ChangeLog

2005-09-12 : Initial release

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