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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
CWE ID : CWE-OVAL1044 - CWE-OVAL998
Rated as : Moderate Risk

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

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges [...]

Solution

Apply patches :

SPARC :

Solaris 8 T-patch T108652-94 (for Xsun)
Solaris 9 T-patch T112785-52 (for Xsun)
Solaris 10 T-patch T119059-08 (for Xsun)

x86 :

Solaris 8 T-patch T108653-83 (for Xsun)
Solaris 9 T-patch T112786-41 (for Xsun)
Solaris 9 T-patch T118908-02 (for Xorg)
Solaris 10 T-patch T119060-08 (for Xsun)
Solaris 10 T-patch T118966-09 (for Xorg)

ChangeLog

2005-09-16 : Initial release

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