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Progress Privilege Escalation
Secunia Advisory: SA9044
Release Date: 2003-06-16
Popularity: 5,433 views

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

Software:Progress 9.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities has been identified in Progress allowing local users to escalate their privileges.

1) The problem is that it is possible for users to supply the "-installdir" parameter to "_dbagent". This can be exploited to make "_dbagent" search for ".so" or ".dll" files in a different location. This allows malicious local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges because "_dbagent" is installed setuid root.

2) Multiple executables in "/usr/dlc/bin" reads the "PATH" environment when searching for ".dll" and ".so" files. This allows malicious local users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges because many of the executables are installed setuid root.

This has been reported to affect version 9.1 to 9.1D06

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