TITLE:
SAP sapdba Command Insecure Environment Variable Handling

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20180

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20180/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
SAP R/3
http://secunia.com/product/1206/

DESCRIPTION:
Leandro Meiners has reported a vulnerability in SAP, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the
"sapdba" command within the handling of certain environment variable.
This can be exploited by local users to execute arbitrary commands
with privileges of the "informix" user.

The vulnerability has been reported in the following versions on the
HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, TRUE64, and Linux platforms:
* sapdba command for Informix version prior to 700.
* sapdba command for Informix version 700 up to patch number 100.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has reportedly released a fix for the vulnerability. See
SAP note 944585 for details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Leandro Meiners, Cybsec S.A.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.cybsec.com/vuln/CYBSEC_Security_Pre-Advisory_Local_Privilege_Escalation_in_SAP_sapdba_Command.pdf

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