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>> OpenBase SQL "Library/OpenBase/bin/gnutar" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : OpenBase SQL "Library/OpenBase/bin/gnutar" Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4058
CVE ID : CVE-2006-5327 - CVE-2006-5328
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2006-10-17
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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.
Affected Products
OpenBase SQL version 10.0 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to the latest J2SE 5.0-compliant OpenBase JDBC driver :
http://store.openbase.com/downloads.html
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4058
http://www.digitalmunition.com/DMA[2006-1016a].txt
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Kevin Finisterre
ChangeLog
2006-10-17 : Initial release
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