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TITLE:
Sun Solaris Editors Tag File Handling Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31895

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31895/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

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

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
handling of tag files in the Solaris editors (vi, ex, vedit, view,
and edit). This can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with
privileges of another user when the "-t" option or the ":tag" command
in a Solaris text editor is used.

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

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 110903-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-110903-08-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 113031-04 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-113031-04-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 120830-06 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120830-06-1

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 110904-08 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-110904-08-1

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 116479-02 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-116479-02-1

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 120831-06 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-120831-06-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Eli the Bearded.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237987-1

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