A new vulnerability was identified in Sun Solaris, with may be exploited by malicious users to abtain elevated privieleges. This flaw is caused due to a buffer overflow error in the "newgrp" command, which may allow a local unprivileged user the ability to gain root privileges.
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Vulnerability reported by Sun
ChangeLog
2005-03-17 : Initial release
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