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Affix "affix_sock_register()" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA15086  
Release Date: 2005-04-25
Last Update: 2005-05-02

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

Software:Affix 2.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-1294 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Kevin Finisterre has reported a vulnerability in Affix, which may be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the "affix_sock_register()" function in "hci.c". This may be exploited to execute arbitrary code inside the kernel by supplying a negative protocol value when creating a socket for the "PF_AFFIX" communication domain.

Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

The vulnerability will reportedly be fixed in an upcoming version.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kevin Finisterre

Changelog:
2005-05-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2005-0423a].txt



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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Affix Device Name Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
2. Affix Buffer Overflow and Shell Command Injection Vulnerabilities


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