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Gentoo Nethack And Variants Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability


Nethack and its variant versions are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. The issue results from a design error.

A local attacker can leverage this issue to exploit latent vulnerabilities in applications by overwriting shared game data files.







 

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