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Sun Solaris rm Race Condition Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24082
Release Date: 2007-02-09
Last Update: 2007-02-13
Popularity: 8,548 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-0895


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition when recursively deleting a directory with the rm(1) command. This can be exploited to delete files and directories outside of the selected directory when a privileged user deletes a specially crafted directory hierarchy.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 124969-01 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 123372-02 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 124244-01 or later.

-- x86 Platform--

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 124970-01 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 123373-02 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 124245-01 or later.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Jim Meyering.

Changelog:
2007-02-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102782-1


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