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Sun Solaris pfexec Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA10755
Release Date:	2004-01-30
Last Update:	2005-02-10

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

OS:	Sun Solaris 8 Sun Solaris 9


CVE reference:	CVE-2004-1394 (Secunia mirror)

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Description: Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. The pfexec program may reportedly execute "profile" commands with additional privileges if the execution profiles database contains an invalid entry for a user's custom rights profile. Solution: Apply patches. -- SPARC Platform -- Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=109007&rev=15 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=116237&rev=01 -- x86 Platform -- Solaris 8: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=109008&rev=15 Solaris 9: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=116238&rev=01 Provided and/or discovered by: Reported by vendor. Changelog: 2005-02-10: Added CVE reference. Original Advisory: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57453-1



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