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Open UNIX / UnixWare procfs Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA10217

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Release Date:

2003-11-14

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

OS:

Open UNIX 8.x.x
UnixWare 7.x.x

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Solution:
Install the latest packages.

UnixWare 7.1.1:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.32/erg712482a.Z

UnixWare 7.1.3:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.32/erg712482c.Z

Open UNIX 8.0.0:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.32/erg712482b.Z

Provided and/or discovered by:
Joel Soderberg and Christer Oberg, Texonet.

Original Advisory:
SCO: Insecure handling of procfs descriptors in UnixWare can lead to local privilege escalation.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/CSSA-2003-SCO.32/CSSA-2003-SCO.32.txt

Texonet Security Advisory 20031024:
http://www.texonet.com/advisories/TEXONET-20031024.txt

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