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SCO OpenServer Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA14836
Release Date: 2005-04-06
Last Update: 2005-05-26
Popularity: 6,819 views

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

OS:SCO OpenServer 5.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Christer Olberg has reported some vulnerabilities in SCO OpenServer, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to a boundary errors in the nwclient, nwcancel, nwlpstat, and nwlpadmin utilities when processing command line arguments. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by passing an overly long argument.

Successful exploitation may grant "lp" group privileges.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions 5.0.6 and 5.0.7. Other versions may also be affected.

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