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Sun Grid Engine Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21185
Release Date: 2006-07-31
Last Update: 2006-08-03
Popularity: 6,090 views

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

Software:Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 5.x
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.x

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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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