It was reported recently that splitvt is vulnerable to
numerous buffer overflow attack and a format string attack An attacker was
able to gain access to the root user id
We recommend you upgrade your splitvt package immediately ...
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* MasterSecuritY <wwwmastersecurityfr>
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* spitvtc - Local exploit for splitvt < 165
* Copyright (C) 2001 fish stiqz <fish@analogorg>
* Copyright (C) 2001 Michel "MaXX" Kaempf <maxx@mastersecurityfr>
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* Updated versions of this exploit and the corresponding advisory will
* be made available at:
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