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Secunia Advisory SA26220

Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA26220
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Release Date 2007-07-26
Last Update 2007-07-31
   
Popularity 10,295 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
Privilege escalation
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Sun Solaris 10.x
Sun Solaris 8.x
Sun Solaris 9.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4070 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

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 in Customer Area

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

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

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

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