Sympa queue utility privilege escalation vulnerability

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  3. Sympa queue utility privilege escalation vulnerability
Summary
The remote host seems to be running sympa, an open source mailing list management software. The remote version of this software contains a vulnerability which can be exploited by malicious local user to gain escalated privileges. This issue is due to a boundary error in the queue utility when processing command line arguments. This can cause a stack based buffer overflow.
Solution
Update to Sympa version 4.1.3 or newer
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Medium Severity
Classification
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