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            "value": "McAfee credits Andreas Dewald, ERNW Research GmbH (Germany) for discovery of this vulnerability"
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                "value": "Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Agent (MA) for Linux 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to perform arbitrary command execution via specific conditions."
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