Security Advisory SA15841 - Sun Solaris Runtime Linker Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA15841

Sun Solaris Runtime Linker Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA15841

Release Date

2005-06-29

Last Update

2006-01-10

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Sun Solaris 10.x

Sun Solaris 8.x

Sun Solaris 9.x

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CVE-2005-2072 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

Przemyslaw Frasunek has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error in the runtime linker (ld.so.1) when executing setuid and setgid programs. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code from a malicious library with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability affects the following versions:
* Solaris 8 with patches 109147-31 through 109147-36 (SPARC)
* Solaris 8 with patches 109148-31 through 109148-36 (x86)
* Solaris 9 with patches 112963-16 through 112963-21 (SPARC)
* Solaris 9 with patches 113986-12 through 113986-17 (x86)
* Solaris 10 (x86)

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
Przemyslaw Frasunek

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Original Advisory
Sun Microsystems:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101794-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102124-1

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