Secunia Logo  


Secunia PSI WorldMap
 
Sun Solaris "in.rexecd" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA18891
Release Date: 2006-02-15
Last Update: 2006-02-23
Popularity: 8,283 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 10

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities


Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the "in.rexecd" daemon. This can be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges on Kerberos systems.

The vulnerability has been reported in Solaris 10 on both x86 and SPARC platforms.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 33 views
2. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities // 29 views
3. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 26 views
4. Microsoft Windows Win32k Kernel-Mode Driver Multiple Vulnerabilities // 22 views
5. Red Hat update for firefox // 16 views
6. Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities // 16 views
7. Red Hat update for bind // 16 views
8. Red Hat update for libxml and libxml2 // 15 views
9. Red Hat update for openoffice.org // 14 views
10. Red Hat update for apr and apr-util // 13 views