A vulnerability has been identified in OpenBase SQL, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This flaw is due to errors in various binaries that invoke "/Library/OpenBase/bin/gnutar" in an insecure manner, which could be exploited by local attackers to run "gzip" without an absolute path and then execute arbitrary commands with "root" privileges by manipulating the "PATH" environment variable.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kevin Finisterre
ChangeLog
2006-10-17 : Initial release
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