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Sun Solaris uucp / uustat Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18371
Release Date: 2006-01-10
Last Update: 2006-08-07
Popularity: 9,343 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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Description:
Angelo Rosiello 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 boundary error in the uucp(1C) and uustat(1C) utilities when handling an overly long "-S" command line argument. This can be exploited by malicious users to cause a buffer overflow and allows execution arbitrary code with the privileges of the "uucp" user.

The vulnerability has been reported in Solaris 8 and 9 on both SPARC and x86 platforms.

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