TITLE:
UnixWare ptrace Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18958

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CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
UnixWare 7.x.x
http://secunia.com/product/136/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
"ptrace()" system call. This can be exploited by malicious users to
gain root privileges.

The vulnerability has been reported in UnixWare 7.1.3 and 7.1.4.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

UnixWare 7.1.3:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.9/p533176.713.image
a31512eee4940c6ba048a1b1878ac4fc

UnixWare 7.1.4:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.9/p533176.714.image
1b8fa986357036a8be043b642cc47e56

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits iDEFENSE.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/UnixWare/SCOSA-2006.9/SCOSA-2006.9.txt

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