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Sun Solaris IP Multicast Filter Privilege Escalation
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30693
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Release Date:
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2008-06-16
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Last Update:
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2008-06-20
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Popularity:
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3,073 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
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-2710
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Description:
Tobias Klein has reported a vulnerability in Sun Solaris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to a signedness error in the IP kernel module when setting a socket's multi-cast filter. This can be exploited via a specially crafted "SIOCSIPMSFILTER" IOCTL requests.
Solution:
Apply patches.
-- SPARC Platform --
Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137111-01 or later.
-- x86 Platform --
Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137112-01 or later.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Tobias Klein
Changelog:
2008-06-20: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
Sun Microsystems:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237965-1
Trapkit.de:
http://www.trapkit.de/advisories/TKADV2008-003.txt
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