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mkcookie is a utility used to generate fresh 'Magic Cookies' each time the X server is run. RSI has discovered a vulnerability in mkcookie caused by insufficient bounds checking. Because mkcookie is suid root on Solaris x86 systems, this would allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root.

mkcookie is a utility used to generate fresh 'Magic Cookies' each time the X server is run. RSI has discovered a vulnerability in mkcookie caused by insufficient bounds checking. Because mkcookie is suid root on Solaris x86 systems, this would allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root.