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Borland Interbase External Table Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA8551  
Release Date: 2003-04-09

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

Software:Borland Interbase 6.x

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Description:
A vulnerability identified in Borland InterBase can be exploited by malicious users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused by an access control error. The problem is that it is possible to create an external table in an arbitrary file on the system. If the file exists, it is possible to manipulate it by appending data to it. Reportedly, InterBase is installed with SYSTEM or root privileges by default, which allows manipulation of any file on the system.

An example was included in the original advisory, which creates a user with root privileges and no password:

create table test external '/etc/passwd' (id char(80));
insert into test values('r00t::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash');

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Solution:
Upgrade to version 7.0. Allow only trusted users access to the system.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kotala Zdenek



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4 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Borland InterBase Multiple Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
2. Borland Interbase / Firebird Database Name Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
3. Borland Interbase ISC_LOCK_ENV Variable Privilege Escalation
4. Borland Interbase local root vulnerability


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