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Sun Solaris Database Function Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA9088
Release Date: 2003-06-20
Last Update: 2005-02-10
Popularity: 9,235 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 has reported some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors in the "dbm_open()", and "dbminit()" database functions. These can be exploited to cause buffer overflows, which may allow execution of arbitrary code with "root" privileges.

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