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HP-UX Line Printer Daemon Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The line printer daemon, 'rlpdaemon', shipped with HP-UX contains a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability.

The daemon is enabled by default and runs with root privileges.

Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target host.