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TITLE:
OCS Inventory Unified Agent Insecure Module Search Path

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35727

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35727/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to the agent using an insecure module
search path, which can be exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary Perl
code with the privileges of the agent by placing a malicious module
within the search path.

SOLUTION:
Update to Ocsinventory-Agent (Unified Agent) version 0.0.9.3.
http://nana.rulezlan.org/%7Egoneri/ocsinventory-agent/Ocsinventory-Agent-0.0.9.3.tar.gz

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Josselin Mouette

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
OCS Inventory:
http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=144&cntnt01returnid=51

Debian Bug #506416:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506416

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