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Published: 04/03/1997 Updated: 05/09/2008

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 725

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in TestChip function in XFree86 SuperProbe in Slackware Linux 3.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long -nopr argument.

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/* source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/364/info superprobe is an program supplied with XFree86 that helps determine video hardware It is shipped with Slackware Linux 31 and is installed setuid root There is an exploitable strcpy buffer overflow in the TestChip() function which allows for a trivial local root compromise */ /* * SuperProbe ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/6384 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/364 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/19283/

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