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Debian das-watchdog Critical Privilege Escalation CVE-2015-2831 DSA-3221-1

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Calendar Grey April 12, 2015
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A critical Debian advisory addresses a buffer overflow in das-watchdog leading to privilege escalation. Upgrade required.
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 mach...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.0-2+deb7u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.0-3.1.

We recommend that you upgrade your das-watchdog packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: das-watchdog
CVE ID: CVE-2015-2831

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