Security Advisory SA26220 - Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA26220

Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA26220

Release Date

2007-07-26

Last Update

2007-07-31

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Sun Solaris 10.x

Sun Solaris 8.x

Sun Solaris 9.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-4070 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

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 an unspecified error in lbxproxy, which can be exploited to read data from arbitrary files that have the group ownership set to root.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 8, 9 and 10 for both the SPARC and x86 platforms.

Solution
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Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Charles Morris, Old Dominion University.

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Original Advisory
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102948-1

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