Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Nixu NameSurfer (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to errors in the code of the program, allowing an attacker to exploit it and gain unauthorized privilege escalation in the system. This is achieved by writing the path to their own file into the $PATH variable, which will be executed by the application with the suid-bit.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.