Security Advisory SA19789 - Sun Solaris "libpkcs11" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA19789

Sun Solaris "libpkcs11" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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SA19789

Release Date

2006-04-25

Last Update

2006-04-28

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

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Operating System

Sun Solaris 10.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-2064 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the "getpwnam()" family of non-reentrant functions provided by the "libpkcs11(3LIB)" library. This can be exploited by local users to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges if a privileged application is linked with the library and uses the data returned by "getpwnam()" and related functions.

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

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