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Secunia Security Advisory 14836

Secunia Security Advisory 14836
Posted Apr 17, 2005
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Pasquale Minervini has reported a vulnerability in SCO OpenServer, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

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Secunia Security Advisory 14836

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TITLE:
SCO OpenServer nwclient Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14836

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14836/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
SCO OpenServer 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/137/

DESCRIPTION:
Pasquale Minervini has reported a vulnerability in SCO OpenServer,
which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated
privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the nwclient
utility when processing command line arguments. This can be exploited
to cause a buffer overflow by passing an overly long argument.

Successful exploitation grants "lp" group privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 5.0.7.

SOLUTION:
Remove the setgid bit from the vulnerable program.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Pasquale Minervini

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