TITLE:
mtink HOME Environment Variable Handling Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18249

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18249/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
mtink 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/4229/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling the
HOME environment variable. This can be exploited to cause a buffer
overflow, and potentially can be exploited to execute arbitrary code
with root privileges.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.12a:
http://xwtools.automatix.de/files/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
newbug

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Mandriva:
http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:239

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