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TITLE:
Net Activity Viewer Privilege Escalation Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29097

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29097/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Net Activity Viewer 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/17757/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Net Activity Viewer, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to an error when calling the "gksu"
utility with an insecure path from the "Restart As Root" action. This
can be exploited by a malicious, local user, having the same
privileges as the user running Net Activity Viewer, to obtain the
root password.

The security issue is reported in version 0.2.1. Prior versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.2.2.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=212558&package_id=255714&release_id=579181

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=579181

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