CVE-2003-0449

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv, or (2) the -installdir command line parameter, as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen, which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries, as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv, or (2) the -installdir command line parameter, as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 21 years ago

2003-08-07 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:33:00

Affected Software

Progress Software Corp Database 9.1

9.1

References

20030614 SRT2003-06-13-0945 - Progress PATH based dlopen() issue

20030614 SRT2003-06-13-1009 - Progress _dbagent -installdir dlopen() issue

http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-0945.txt

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-1009.txt

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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