From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 09:13:12 CST

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TITLE:
xboing Potential Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11010

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CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
xboing 2.x

DESCRIPTION:
Steve Kemp has discovered some vulnerabilities in xboing, potentially
allowing malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

Reportedly, multiple boundary errors exist in xboing. These can be
exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges on
systems where xboing is installed setgid.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 2.4. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Remove the setgid bit.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Steve Kemp

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