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pr-edit
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SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Heap Overflow
119
CWE
Product Name: pr-edit
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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2002

Heap Overflow Vulnerability in pr-edit Utility of GNATS

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.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of pr-edit utility of GNATS.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8003/info

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. 

/usr/local/lib/gnats/./pr-edit -d`perl -e 'print "x"x9000'`

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