From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 03:50:09 CDT

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TITLE:
IBM Informix I-Spy "runbin" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11990

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11990/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
IBM Informix I-Spy 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3652/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in IBM Informix I-Spy, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The problem is that the "runbin" tool erroneously is setuid "root",
which may grant unprivileged users "root" privileges on an affected
system.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability will be fixed in versions 2.00.UD3 and 2.00.FD3.

IBM has provided a script, which addresses the issue (see
instructions in the original advisory):
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21172742&aid=1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21172742&rs=260

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