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UpClient Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA8878
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Release Date:
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2003-05-28
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Popularity:
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4,553 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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| Software: | UpClient 5.x
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Secunia CVSS-2 Score:
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in UpClient, which can be exploited by a malicious, local user to escalate privileges on a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error. A malicious person can exploit this by supplying an overly long, specially crafted string to the parameter "-p" when executing the program.
Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the group "kmem".
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