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Sun Solaris dtsession privilege escalation

Secunia Advisory:	SA8468
Release Date:	2003-04-01

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


CVE reference:	CVE-2003-0092 (Secunia mirror)

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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. Solution: It is necessary to remove the setuid bit until Sun issues a patch. This may prevent users from unlocking the screen. Reportedly Sun should have published an advisory today: http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/52388 The patches: Solaris 2.6 106027-12 Solaris 2.6_x86 106028-12 Solaris 7 107702-12 Solaris 7_x86 107703-12 Solaris 8 109354-19 Solaris 8_x86 109355-18 Solaris 9 114497-01 Solaris 9_x86 114498-01 Provided and/or discovered by: NSFOCUS Security Team Original Advisory: http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/sa2003-03.htm



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