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Published: 24/01/2005 Updated: 11/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 187

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

zhcon prior to 0.2 does not drop privileges before reading a user configuration file, which allows local users to read arbitrary files.

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ejoy and hu yong zhcon 0.2

Erik Sjölund discovered that zhcon, a fast console CJK system using the Linux framebuffer, accesses a user-controlled configuration file with elevated privileges Thus, it is possible to read arbitrary files For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 02-4woody3 For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem wil ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-655 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12343 http://securitytracker.com/id?1012977 http://secunia.com/advisories/13977 http://secunia.com/advisories/13982 http://secunia.com/advisories/13987 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:012 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/19045 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-655

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