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TITLE:
Sun Solaris crontab Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30482

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30482/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 8
http://secunia.com/product/94/
Sun Solaris 9
http://secunia.com/product/95/
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.

The vulnerability is caused due to a race condition in the Solaris
crontab(1) utility and can be exploited to inject arbitrary cron jobs
into another local user's crontab file.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- SPARC Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 109007-26 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122300-27 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137017-02 or later.

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in build snv_93 or later.

-- x86 Platform --

Solaris 8:
Apply patch 109008-26 or later.

Solaris 9:
Apply patch 122301-27 or later.

Solaris 10:
Apply patch 137018-02 or later.

OpenSolaris:
Fixed in build snv_93 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Charles Morris, Old Dominion University.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-237864-1

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