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TITLE:
HP-UX Single Logical Screen Daemon Arbitrary File Access

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24169

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24169/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From local network

OPERATING SYSTEM:
HP-UX 10.x
http://secunia.com/product/871/
HP-UX 11.x
http://secunia.com/product/138/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in HP-UX, which can be exploited by
malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a design error in the Single
Logical Screen daemon (SLSd) and can be exploited to create or
overwrite arbitrary files with superuser privileges via a specially
crafted packet sent to the daemon.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code by e.g.
overwriting .rhosts, cron scripts, or other files used for
authentication.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 11.11i and 10.20. Other
versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends disabling SLSd (please see vendor's advisory
for details).

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
HPSBUX02191 SSRT071302:
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00862809

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=474

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