---------------------------------------------------------------------- Secure your corporate defenses and reduce complexity in handling vulnerability threats with the new Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM) Beta. Join the beta: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/vim/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Cisco Unified Communications Manager Privilege Escalation Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA42129 VERIFY ADVISORY: Secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/42129/ Customer Area (Credentials Required) https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42129 RELEASE DATE: 2010-11-09 DISCUSS ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/42129/#comments AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Last Update * Popularity * Comments * Criticality Level * Impact * Where * Solution Status * Operating System / Software * CVE Reference(s) http://secunia.com/advisories/42129/ ONLY AVAILABLE IN CUSTOMER AREA: * Authentication Level * Report Reliability * Secunia PoC * Secunia Analysis * Systems Affected * Approve Distribution * Remediation Status * Secunia CVSS Score * CVSS https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=42129 ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI: * AUTOMATED SCANNING http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/ http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Cisco Unified Communications Manager, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges. The vulnerability is caused due to an input validation error in the "/usr/local/cm/bin/pktCap_protectData" setuid program when processing options. This can be exploited e.g. via the administrative web-based interface to execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the root user. Please see the vendor's advisory for details on affected versions. SOLUTION: Update to the latest version. Please see the vendor's advisory for more details. PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Knud Erik Højgaard, nSense ORIGINAL ADVISORY: Cisco: http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=21656 NSENSE-2010-003: http://www.nsense.fi/advisories/nsense_2010_003.txt OTHER REFERENCES: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ DEEP LINKS: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED DESCRIPTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXTENDED SOLUTION: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ EXPLOIT: Further details available in Customer Area: http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- About: This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help private users keeping their systems up to date against the latest vulnerabilities. Subscribe: http://secunia.com/advisories/secunia_security_advisories/ Definitions: (Criticality, Where etc.) http://secunia.com/advisories/about_secunia_advisories/ Please Note: Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by clicking the link. Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories. Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only use those supplied by the vendor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: Secunia Security Advisories http://secunia.com/sec_adv_unsubscribe/?email=packet%40packetstormsecurity.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------