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HP-UX "NLSPATH" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10159
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Release Date:
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2003-11-07
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Last Update:
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2004-02-12
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Popularity:
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8,462 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | HP-UX 10.x
HP-UX 11.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in HP-UX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that a superuser can't restrict the paths set in the "NLSPATH" environment variable for suid programs. This is a problem for programs using "catopen()", since it can be exploited to open specially crafted files, which may result in a format string vulnerability.
The vulnerability affects HP9000 servers running HP-UX releases B.10.20, B.11.00, B.11.04, B.11.11, and B.11.22.
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