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Gentoo: 200603-23 Moderate: NetHack Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Uncover the potential dangers of local privilege escalation within NetHack and similar applications as highlighted in Gentoo GLSA 200603-23.
NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are vulnerable to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code as other users

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200603-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: NetHack, Slash'EM, Falcon's Eye: Local privilege escalation Date: March 23, 2006 Bugs: #125902, #122376, #127167, #127319 ID: 200603-23

Synopsis ======= NetHack, Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are vulnerable to local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that could potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code as other users.
Background ========= NetHack is the classic single player dungeon exploration game. Slash'EM and Falcon's Eye are NetHack variants.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 games-roguelike/nethack <= 3.4.3-r1 Vulnerable! 2 games-roguelik...

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