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TITLE:
Stunnel Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30297

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30297/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Stunnel 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/960/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when Stunnel
is running as a Windows service. This can be exploited to run
arbitrary commands with LocalSystem privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.23.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.23 or later.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.stunnel.org/news/

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