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>> Emilia Pinball Level Plugins Loading Security Bypass and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : Emilia Pinball Level Plugins Loading Security Bypass and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2535
CVE ID : CVE-2006-2196
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-06-26
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A vulnerability has been identified in Emilia Pinball, which could be exploited by malicious users to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to an input validation error when loading level plugins, which could be exploited by local attackers to cause a vulnerable application to load malicious plugins from user-controlled directories without dropping privileges.
Affected Products
Emilia Pinball version 0.3.1 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2535
http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1102
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Steve Kemp
ChangeLog
2006-06-26 : Initial release
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