CVE-2005-2072

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-06-29 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

References

20050628 Solaris 9/10 ld.so fun

Exploit

20050628 Solaris 9/10 ld.so fun

Exploit

20050628 Solaris 9/10 ld.so fun

15841

Vendor Advisory

1014537

101794

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=3497

14074

Exploit

ADV-2005-0908

Vendor Advisory

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