One-click exploit could potentially affect most major distros
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A user just has to download a file and have it stored in a commonly scanned directory, such as the downloads, music, or videos folders, and the attacker can achieve RCE on their machine. The full PoCs have not been published yet to offer users time to install the patch. Backhouse said the exploits already developed work"very reliably."
The scanner's track_set_index function doesn't properly check if the index is a negative integer, and if it is negative, then anDue to the consistency of each distro's heap layout, an attacker could feasibly compile a zip archive containing individual files to exploit the same vulnerability in as many distros as they like to maximize the potential for success.
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