FrSIRT - Gentoo Security Update Fixes capi4k-utils Privilege Escalation and DoS Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Gentoo Security Update Fixes capi4k-utils Privilege Escalation and DoS Vulnerability

Title : Gentoo Security Update Fixes capi4k-utils Privilege Escalation and DoS Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-1569
CVE ID : CVE-2007-1217
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-04-30

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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Gentoo, which could be exploited by malicious users to cause a denial of service or obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the "bufprint()" function in capi4k-utils, which could be exploited by local attackers by sending specially crafted CAPI packets.

ChangeLog

2007-04-30 : Initial release

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