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TITLE:
Cisco NX-OS / Unified Computing System "section" and "less" Privilege
Escalation Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA46569

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=46569

RELEASE DATE:
2011-10-28

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DESCRIPTION:
Peter Adkins has reported two vulnerabilities in Cisco NX-OS and
Cisco Unified Computing System, which can be exploited by malicious,
local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to input validation errors in the
"section" and "less" commands and can be exploited to inject and
execute arbitrary shell commands with "root" privileges.

Please see the vendor's advisory for the list of affected software.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches. Please contact the vendor for more information.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Peter Adkins

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Cisco:
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=24458

Peter Adkins:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2011-10/0148.html

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