FrSIRT - Sun Solaris Xsun and Xorg Servers Local Privilege Escalation Issue / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Sun Solaris Xsun and Xorg Servers Local Privilege Escalation Issue

Title : Sun Solaris Xsun and Xorg Servers Local Privilege Escalation Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1768
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2495
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-09-16

Advisory Details

Description

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Solution

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Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is due to an integer overflow error in Xsun and Xorg Servers when handling pixmap memory allocations, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with "root" privileges. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1712

ChangeLog

2005-09-16 : Initial release

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