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Sun Solaris dtprintinfo Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10384
Release Date: 2003-12-08
Last Update: 2005-02-10
Popularity: 8,489 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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CVE reference:CVE-2003-1057


Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in dtprintinfo.

No more information is available.

Solution:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 2.6:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106437&rev=04

Solaris 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=107885&rev=09

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110335&rev=03

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114495&rev=01


-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 2.6:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=106438&rev=04

Solaris 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=107886&rev=09

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110336&rev=03

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114496&rev=01

Changelog:
2005-02-10: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57441-1


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