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Sun Grid Engine Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA21185
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Release Date:
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2006-07-31
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Last Update:
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2006-08-03
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Popularity:
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5,890 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 5.x
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun N1 Grid Engine, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified boundary error and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow.
Successful exploitation crashes the qmaster or execd process and shuts down the grid service and may also allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges.
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