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gpm is the General Mouse Protocol, a software package maintained by public domain. It is freely available, and open source. It runs on Linux and other Unix systems. gpm does not properly handle format strings supplied by an arbitrary user. A user may pass arbitrary format strings to the gpm-root program, that could result in the execution of arbitrary code. The gpm program is started by init with root privileges.

gpm is the General Mouse Protocol, a software package maintained by public domain. It is freely available, and open source. It runs on Linux and other Unix systems. gpm does not properly handle format strings supplied by an arbitrary user. A user may pass arbitrary format strings to the gpm-root program, that could result in the execution of arbitrary code. The gpm program is started by init with root privileges.