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Sun Solaris ZFS File Ownership Modification Security Issue
Secunia Advisory: SA37010
Release Date: 2009-10-15
Last Update: 2009-11-09
Popularity: 533 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 10

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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to an error in the ZFS file system, which can be exploited to gain ownership of other users' files.

Successful exploitation requires "file_chown_self" privileges.

The security issue is reported in Solaris 10 with patch 137137-09 (SPARC) or patch 137138-09 (x86) and OpenSolaris.

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