The line printer daemon (lpd) in the lpr package in multiple Linux operating systems allows local users to gain root privileges by causing sendmail to execute with arbitrary command line arguments, as demonstrated using the -C option to specify a configuration file.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-04-21T04:00:00

Updated: 2017-07-10T14:57:01

Reserved: 2005-04-21T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2000-1220

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2000-01-08T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2017-07-11T01:29:03.210


Link: CVE-2000-1220

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