19699 : Solaris Xsun Unspecified Local Privilege Escalation
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Disclosure
Sep 26, 2005

Discovery
Unknown

Dates

Exploit
Unknown

Solution
Unknown

Keywords

 BugIDs: 6265045

Description

 Solaris contains a flaw related to the Xsun program that may allow an attacker to escalate privileges. No further details have been provided.

Classification

 Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Unknown
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown

Solution

 Sun Microsystems, Inc. has released patches to address this vulnerability. It is also possible to correct the flaw by implementing the following workaround(s): remove the setuid and setgid bit from the permissions of Xsun.

Products
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Watch-list
Solaris (SPARC)
Watch-list
 7
8 without patch 108652-93
9 without patch 112785-50
10 without patch 119059-05
Solaris (x86)
Watch-list
 7
8 without patch 108653-82
9 without patch 112786-39
10 without patch 119060-05

References

Credit
  • Eric Sheridan - Towson University

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