Published: 14/04/2015 Updated: 03/12/2016

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

VMScore: 641

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

Buffer overflow in das_watchdog 0.9.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges via a large string in the XAUTHORITY environment variable.

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Debian Bug report logs - #781806 das-watchdog: CVE-2015-2831: Buffer overflow in the handling of the XAUTHORITY env variable Package: das-watchdog; Maintainer for das-watchdog is Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for das-watchdog is src:das-watchdog (PTS, buildd, popcon) ...

Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the XAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon to ensure a realtime process won't hang the machine A local user can exploit this flaw to escalate his privileges and execute arbitrary code as root For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed i ...

CWE-119 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/01/8 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3221 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/02/13 https://github.com/kmatheussen/das_watchdog/commit/bd20bb02e75e2c0483832b52f2577253febfb690 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73706 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781806 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3221

CVE-2015-2831

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