From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 07:20:30 CDT

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TITLE:
HP-UX "rwrite" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8726/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
HP-UX 11.x
HP-UX 10.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been identified in HP-UX, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in
"/usr/lbin/rwrite", which can be exploited by supplying an
appoximately 14628 bytes long, specially crafted argument when
executing the program.

SOLUTION:
HP reports that the vulnerability doesn't exist on systems with the
following patches applied:

HP-UX 10.20:
PHCO_27133

HP-UX 11.00:
PHCO_27132

HP-UX 11.11:
PHCO_27020

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