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It has been reported that GNATS is prone to a buffer overflow condition when parsing certain environment variables. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by setting an overly long environment variable and invoking one of several GNATS utilities. This will trigger the overflow condition and will result in the corruption of sensitive memory. Successful exploitation may result in the execution of attacker-supplied code with elevated privileges.

It has been reported that GNATS is prone to a buffer overflow condition when parsing certain environment variables. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by setting an overly long environment variable and invoking one of several GNATS utilities. This will trigger the overflow condition and will result in the corruption of sensitive memory. Successful exploitation may result in the execution of attacker-supplied code with elevated privileges.