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Alt-N MDaemon Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A local privilege escalation vulnerability reportedly affects Alt-N MDaemon. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly drop privileges prior to executing child processes.

An attacker may leverage this issue to execute applications with SYSTEM privileges, facilitating privilege escalation.







 

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