From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 04:15:51 CST

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TITLE:
Sun Solaris "newtask" Command Privilege Escalation

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8454/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Sun Solaris 9

DESCRIPTION:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris 9, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability is caused by an unspecified security issue in the
"newtask" command, which can be exploited to gain "root" privileges
on a vulnerable system.

SOLUTION:
Apply patches.

-- Solaris 9 --

SPARC:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114713&rev=01

x86:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/findPatch.pl?patchId=114714&rev=01

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F52111&zone_32=category%3Asecurity

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