From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 16:33:57 CST

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TITLE:
HP-UX update for ypxfrd

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10581

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10581/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

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

DESCRIPTION:
HP has issued patches for HP-UX, which fix an old vulnerability. This
can be exploited by malicious, local users to access arbitrary files
on a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the
"getdbm" procedure in ypxfrd. This can be exploited via directory
traversal attacks to read arbitrary files.

The vulnerability affects HP-UX B.10.20, B.10.26, B.11.00, B.11.11,
and B.11.22.

SOLUTION:
Apply the following patches available at:
http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

HP-UX B.10.20:
PHNE_28886

HP-UX B.10.26:
PHNE_28907

HP-UX B.11.00:
PHNE_28102

HP-UX B.11.11:
PHNE_28103

HP-UX B.11.22:
PHNE_28138

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Janusz Niewiadomski

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