Local privilege escalation in Lix and Nix

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18 points | by stebalien 9 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • stebalien 9 hours ago

    Nix and Lix daemon implementations are affected by buffer overflows vulnerabilities that allow a local attacker to gain arbitrary code execution as the daemon user (root in multi-user installations).

  • Dorrell 9 hours ago

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