Description: A vulnerability has been reported in HP Tru64 UNIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when running the "dop" command and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with privileges of the "root" user.
The vulnerability is reported in HP Tru64 UNIX v5.1B-4, v5.1B-3, and v5.1A PK6.
Solution: Apply ERPs (see vendor advisory for details).
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