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Debian: New splitvt packages fix privilege escalation

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LinuxSecurity.com: Mike Ashton discovered that splitvt, a utility to run two programs in a split screen, did not drop group privileges prior to executing 'xprop'. This could allow any local user to gain the privileges of group utmp.




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/134785?rdf

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