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TITLE:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16545

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16545/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Cisco Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/5600/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Intrusion Prevention
System, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain
escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the command line
processing (CLI) logic and can be exploited by a user with OPERATOR
or VIEWER privileges to gain full administrative privileges.

The vulnerability affects versions 5.0(1) and 5.0(2). Versions 4.x
and prior are not vulnerable.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.0(3).
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ips5

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cisco:
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-20050824-ips.shtml

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