Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in UnixWare, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
UnixWare ReliantHA Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30921
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30921/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
UnixWare 7.x.x
http://secunia.com/product/136/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in UnixWare, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors within certain utilities
in the ReliantHA package and can be exploited to execute arbitrary
code with root privileges.
Successful exploitation requires that the ReliantHA package is
installed.
The vulnerabilities reportedly affect UnixWare version 7.1.4 with
ReliantHA version 1.1.4.
SOLUTION:
Apply patch p534850.
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
qaaz
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
UnixWare:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/p534850.txt
http://milw0rm.com/exploits/5356
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