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TITLE:
Solaris Netscape Portable Runtime Privilege Escalation

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA22348

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/22348/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, DoS

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 10
http://secunia.com/product/4813/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges or
cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the insecure use of environment
variables within the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR). This can be
exploited to overwrite arbitrary files or gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in Sun Solaris 10 for both the SPARC
and x86 platform, but may also affect third party software running
setuid in other versions.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC platform --

Sun Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119213-10-1

Sun Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119211-10-1

Sun Solaris 8:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119209-10-1

-- x86 Platform -- 

Sun Solaris 10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119214-10-1

Sun Solaris 9:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-119212-10-1

-- Linux Platform --

Apply patch 121656-10 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-121656-10-1

-- HP-UX Platform --

Apply patch 124379-01 or later.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21-124379-01-1

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Discovered by an anonymous person and reported via iDefense Labs.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Sun Microsystems:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102658-1&searchclause

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=418

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