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TITLE:
Sun Solaris lbxproxy Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26220

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26220/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information,
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in lbxproxy,
which can be exploited to read data from arbitrary files that have
the group ownership set to root.

The vulnerability is reported in Solaris 8, 9 and 10 for both the
SPARC and x86 platforms.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches:

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 119067-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119067-08-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 112785-62 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-112785-62-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119059-28 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119059-28-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 119068-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119068-08-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 112786-51 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-112786-51-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 119060-27 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119060-27-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Charles Morris, Old Dominion University.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102948-1

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