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Sun Fire X2100 / X2200 "ipmitool" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24447
Release Date: 2007-03-08
Last Update: 2007-03-14
Popularity: 6,096 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Fire X2100 Series
Sun Fire X2200 Series

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1346


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire X2200, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the "ipmitool" utility and can be exploited to gain administrative privileges.

Successful exploitation allows to reset or power-off local or remote Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 Servers.

NOTE: This does not affect the SPARC platform.

The vulnerability affects the following products:
* Sun Fire X2100 M2
* Sun Fire X2200 M2

Solution:
Update to the latest version.

Sun Fire X2100 M2:
Update to Sun Fire X2100M2 with BMC/SP Firmware 2.91
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/downloads.jsp

Sun Fire X2200 M2:
Update to Sun Fire X2200M2 with BMC/SP Firmware 2.91
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x2200/downloads.jsp

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2007-03-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102828-1


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