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GNU GNATS PR-Edit Command Line Option Heap Corruption Vulnerablity

A heap overflow vulnerability has been reported for the pr-edit utility of GNATS. The vulnerability occurs due to insufficient checks performed on the arguments to the '-d' commandline option.

Successful exploitation may result in the execution of attacker-supplied code with potentially elevated privileges.







 

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