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UNICON "HOME" Environment Variable Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA25910
Release Date: 2007-07-02
Popularity: 5,239 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:UNICON 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Steve Kemp has reported a vulnerability in UNICON, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when handling the "HOME" environment variable. This can potentially be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary code with elevated privilege by setting a specially crafted "HOME" environment variable and executing a setuid root binary that uses the library.

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