Title: Elvis Local Root Compromise Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
elvis is a clone of the popular vi-compatible editor.
Certain versions of ja-elvis and ko-helvis (Japanese and Korean ports of the Elvis editor) contain a local buffer overflow vulnerablity.
Properly exploited, this buffer overflow can allow unprivileged local users to gain root access on the vulnerable host.
Further details of this vulnerability are currently unavailable.
Affected Products:
- FreeBSD Elvis 1.0.08h2_0 korean
- FreeBSD Elvis 1.8.4-0 japanese
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