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Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Release Date: 2007-07-26 Last Update: 2007-07-31 Views: 10,942
Secunia Advisory SA26220
Where:
Local system
Impact:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information, Privilege escalation,
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch
CVE Reference(s):
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:
Apply patches:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Charles Morris, Old Dominion University.
Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102948-1
Deep Links:
Links available to Secunia VIM customers
Do you have additional information related to this advisory?
Please provide information about patches, mitigating factors, new versions, exploits, faulty patches, links, and other relevant data by posting comments to this Advisory. You can also send this information to vuln@secunia.com
Subject: Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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