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Sun Solaris crontab Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30482
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Release Date:
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2008-06-02
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Last Update:
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2008-06-12
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Popularity:
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7,209 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Privilege escalation
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Sun Solaris 10
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the Solaris crontab(1) utility and can be exploited to inject arbitrary cron jobs into another local user's crontab file.
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