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Sun Solaris dtsession privilege escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA8468
Release Date: 2003-04-01
Popularity: 8,373 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Sun Solaris 2.6
Sun Solaris 7
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

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Description:
Sun Solaris has been found vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability in "dtsession".

dtsession is installed setuid "root" and does not properly verify the "HOME" environment variable. This allows a malicious user to cause a heap overflow which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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