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TITLE:
PaX Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14489

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
PaX
http://secunia.com/product/3452/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in PaX, which can be exploited by
malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error related to
the VMA mirroring functionality and allows execution of arbitrary
code with escalated privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that the SEGMEXEC or RANDEXEC
feature is enabled.

The vulnerability affects all releases since September 2003.

SOLUTION:
Update to version released on 2005-03-05 or later.
http://pax.grsecurity.net/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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