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puredata — security advisory
An issue in Pure Data 0.54-0 and fixed in 0.54-1 allows a local attacker to escalate privileges via the set*id () function.
- Products
- puredata
- Affected versions
- 0.53.1+ds-2
- Fixed versions
- 0.53.1+ds-2+deb12u1, 0.54.1+ds-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-47480
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue in Pure Data 0.54-0 and fixed in 0.54-1 allows a local attacker to escalate privileges via the set*id () function.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-47480
puredata
Fixed versions: 0.53.1+ds-2+deb12u1
puredata
Fixed versions: 0.54.1+ds-1
puredata
Fixed versions: 0.54.1+ds-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 455674,
"published_at": "2024-09-20T17:15:14.673+00:00"
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