Przemysław Frasunek

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Przemysław Frasunek (also known as venglin, born May 6, 1983) is a "white hat" hacker and computer security expert from Poland. He has been a frequent Bugtraq poster since late in the 1990s^[1], noted for one of the first published successful software exploits for the format string bug class of attacks^[2]^[3], just after the first exploit of the person using nickname tf8^[4]^[5]. Until that time the vulnerability was thought harmless.

[edit] Reported Bugs

Notable vulnerabilities credited to Przemysław Frasunek:

CVE-2000-0573, Format string bug in WU-FTPD (remote root exploit), one of the first exploits for the format string bug class of attacks.^[6].
CVE-2001-0414, Buffer overflow (remote root exploit) in NTP server, affecting wide range of systems^[7]^[8].
CVE-2005-2072, Privilege escalation (local root exploit) affecting Sun Solaris versions 8,9,10 and OpenSolaris operating systems, discovered two weeks after public release of the OpenSolaris^[9].

[edit] External links

Przemysław Frasunek's personal home page

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