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Sun Solaris pkgadd Insecure File Permissions
Secunia Advisory: SA21633
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Last Update: 2006-09-05
Popularity: 11,559 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 10

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information or gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to an error in pkgadd, which may set insecure file permissions (755 or 777) on files and directories when installing a package with a pkgmap file containing a "?" character in the "mode" field.

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