From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Feb 27 2004 - 05:44:29 CST

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris "passwd" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA10992

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/10992/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9
Sun Solaris 8

DESCRIPTION:
Tim Wort has discovered a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error related to
the "passwd" command.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108993&rev=32

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=113476&rev=11

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=108994&rev=32

Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114242&rev=07

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Tim Wort

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/57454

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