Buffer overflow in Berkeley parallel make (pmake) 2.1.33 and previous versions allows a local user to gain root privileges via a long check argument of a shell definition.
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/3573/info
Parallel Make (pmake) is a freely available version of the make program, originally distributed with Berkeley Unix It is designed to execute Makefiles and build programs
pmake is not typically setuid root, although some Linux distributions default to installing it this way When a Makefile is e ...
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