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UnixWare ReliantHA Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA30921
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Release Date:
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2008-07-04
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Popularity:
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2,462 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: | UnixWare 7.x.x
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in UnixWare, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within certain utilities in the ReliantHA package and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Successful exploitation requires that the ReliantHA package is installed.
The vulnerabilities reportedly affect UnixWare version 7.1.4 with ReliantHA version 1.1.4.
Solution:
Apply patch p534850.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/
Provided and/or discovered by:
qaaz
Original Advisory:
UnixWare:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/p534850.txt
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5356
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