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Sun Solaris ed Text Editor Insecure Temporary File Creation

Secunia Advisory:	SA10411
Release Date:	2003-12-11
Last Update:	2005-02-10

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

OS:	Sun Solaris 2.6 Sun Solaris 7 Sun Solaris 8


CVE reference:	CVE-2003-1056 (Secunia mirror)

	This advisory is currently marked as unpatched! - Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!

Description: A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. The text editor "ed" creates temporary files insecurely, which can be exploit via symlink attacks to overwrite and create files on the system with the privileges of other users invoking "ed". Solution: Apply patches. -- SPARC Platform -- Solaris 2.6: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115563&rev=01 Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115565&rev=01 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110903&rev=06 -- x86 Platform -- Solaris 2.6: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115564&rev=01 Solaris 7: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=115566&rev=01 Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=110904&rev=06 Changelog: 2005-02-10: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57443-1



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