Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in OpenWBEM, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
OpenWBEM Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22709
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22709/
CRITICAL:
Moderately critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
OpenWBEM 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5891/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenWBEM, which can be exploited
by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the random
number generator when the system is configured to use local or HTTP
Digest authentication.
The vulnerability is reported in version 3.2.0.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=457026&group_id=16214
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