Description: A vulnerability has been reported in SCO UnixWare, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to the "pkgadd" command not properly filtering a certain environment variable. This can be exploited to add user accounts or gain escalated privileges by overwriting system files via directory traversal sequences (e.g. "../").
Provided and/or discovered by: Discovered by an anonymous person and reported via iDefense Labs.
Changelog: 2008-04-04: Added reference to related SA29370.
2008-04-08: Added UnixWare 7.1.3 to the list of affected products in the "Description". Added links to the "Original Advisory" and "Solution" sections.
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