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QNX Neutrino RTOS Multiple Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Secunia Advisory:

SA18750

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Release Date:

2006-02-08

Last Update:

2009-01-20

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation
DoS

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Unpatched

OS:

QNX Neutrino RTOS 6.x

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Solution:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems.

Remove setuid bits from affected files. Set proper file permissions on the rc.local file, and allow only trusted users to run GDB.

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.
2) iDefense Labs
3) Filipe Balestra
4) Filipe Balestra
5) Knud Højgaard
6) Texonet
7) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.
8) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.
9) Texonet
10) kokanin

Changelog:
2006-02-14: Added CVE references.
2009-01-20: Updated advisory to include vulnerability #10.

Original Advisory:
iDEFENSE:
1) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=379
2) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=380
3) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=381
4) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=382
5) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=383
6) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=385
7) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=386
8) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=387
9) http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=388

kokanin:
10) http://milw0rm.com/exploits/7823

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