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Originally Published: Saturday, 3 June 2000 Author: Derrick H. Lewis
Published to: news_enhance_security/Security News Page: 1/1 - [Printable]

Simple Network Time Sync daemon Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A scanf overflow has been discovered in the Simple Network Time Sync daemon and client version 1.0. Currently the buffer overflow has been tested on RedHat 6.1. It may be possible to obtain root, although it appears one only has 50 characters to run code with.



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