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Sun Solaris AUTH_DES authentication contains vulnerability allowing user to gain escalated privileges

Vulnerability Note VU#518057

Original Release Date: 2003-01-17 | Last Revised: 2003-01-17

Overview

A remotely exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in multiple versions of Solaris.

Description

RPC requests utilizing AUTH_DES authentication can trigger a privilege escalation vulnerability in multiple versions of Solaris. For more details, please see Sun Alert ID 46944.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to gain superuser access.

Solution

Apply a patch.

Vendor Information

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Sun Microsystems Inc. Affected

Updated:  January 17, 2003

Status

Affected

Vendor Statement

See http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F46944&zone_32=category%3Asecurity

Vendor Information

The vendor has not provided us with any further information regarding this vulnerability.

Addendum

The CERT/CC has no additional comments at this time.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Sun Microsystems for the information contained in Sun Alert 46944.

This document was written by Ian A Finlay.

Other Information

CVE IDs: None
Severity Metric: 37.97
Date Public: 2002-12-23
Date First Published: 2003-01-17
Date Last Updated: 2003-01-17 15:56 UTC
Document Revision: 8

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