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Sun StorADE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20445
Release Date: 2006-06-05
Last Update: 2006-06-07
Popularity: 4,872 views

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

Software:Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment 2.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-2790


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment (StorADE), which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to insecure default file and directory permissions (world-writable) on components installed by the optional SUNWstadm package.

The vulnerability has been reported version 2.4 for the SPARC platform. Prior versions are reportedly not affected.

Solution:
Apply patch:

-- SPARC Platform --

StorADE 2.4 (for Solaris 8, 9 and 10) patch 117654-60:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/docume...setkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-117654-60-1

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2006-06-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102305-1


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