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Sun Solaris pfexec Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA10755
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Release Date:
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2004-01-30
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Last Update:
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2005-02-10
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Popularity:
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10,491 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: | Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The pfexec program may reportedly execute "profile" commands with additional privileges if the execution profiles database contains an invalid entry for a user's custom rights profile.
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