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TITLE:
MaxDB Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29312

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29312/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MaxDB 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/4012/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in MaxDB, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges, and
by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) A signedness error within the "vserver" component can be exploited
to cause a heap corruption via a specially crafted packet sent to the
port, which "vserver" is listening on (port 7210/TCP by default).

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but
requires that the name of a local, active database is known.

2) An error exists within the "sdbstarter" program when handling
environment variables. This can be exploited by a malicious, local
user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Successful exploitation requires that the attacker is a member of the
"sdba" group.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 7.6.0.37. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has reportedly fixed the vulnerabilities with the release
of a new version. Contact the vendor for more information.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
An anonymous researcher, reported via iDefense.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
iDefense:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=670
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=669

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