From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 06:31:51 CDT

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TITLE:
EVFS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8871/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
EVFS 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been identified in EVFS allowing malicious users
to escalate their privileges.

The problem is that the arguments "from", "to" and "password" aren't
verified. This allows malicious users to cause a buffer overflow,
which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code as the user "root".

NOTE: The documentation clearly states that it poses a security risk
to install EVFS setuid root. This is why this vulnerability has been
rated as "Not critical".

SOLUTION:
Version 0.3 has been released to address this issue.

REPORTED BY / CREDITS:
Paul Lasarev

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