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Tracker / CVE-1999-1276

CVE-1999-1276

High 7.2

fte-console in the fte package before 0.46b-4.1 does not drop root privileges, which allows local users to gain root access via the virtual console device.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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