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TITLE:
Solaris Unspecified Generic Security Services Library Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA14971

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/14971/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 7
http://secunia.com/product/93/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which potentially can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error making it
possible to load a malicious GSS-API (Generic Security Service
Application Program Interface) via a privileged GSS-API application
linked against the libgss library.

NOTE: The vendor reports that Solaris by default doesn't include any
privileged applications linked against the libgss library.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-107293-02-1

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109223-06-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-112907-04-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 7:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-107294-02-1

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-109224-06-1

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-114263-02-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57734-1

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