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Open UNIX / UnixWare procfs Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10217
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Release Date:
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2003-11-14
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Popularity:
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7,743 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: | Open UNIX 8.x.x
UnixWare 7.x.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in UnixWare and Open UNIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.
The problem is that procfs descriptors are handled insecurely. This allows malicious users to bypass the protection on a setuid/setgid file's process address space image ("/proc/$PID/as") and manipulate it.
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