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Title : Sun Solaris Text Editors Tag Files Local Code Execution Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2614
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4131
CWE ID : CWE-20
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-09-18

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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to potentially gain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an unspecified error within text editors (vi, ex, vedit, view, and edit) when handling tags, which could allow malicious users to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of another user.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Eli the Bearded.

ChangeLog

2008-09-18 : Initial release

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