Title: Debian Super Syslog Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
After the first super buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered, another appeared shortly after. This vulnerability exists when the syslog option is enabled. The overflow is in the file error.c, in the Error() function where the buf[MAXPRINT] buffer is used with no bounds checking. The consequences of this are local root compromise.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 2.0.0
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