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HP-UX "NLSPATH" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10159
Release Date: 2003-11-07
Last Update: 2004-02-12
Popularity: 8,227 views

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

OS:HP-UX 10.x
HP-UX 11.x

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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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