Buffer overflow in IRIX libgl.so library allows local users to gain root privileges via a long HOME variable to programs such as (1) gmemusage and (2) gr_osview.
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Certain versions of IRIX ship with a version libglso which is vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks This library, libglso, is used in conjunction with graphical programs which use OpenGL As a result a number of programs which utilize libglso can be exploited via this problem The exploit w ...
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