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>> Sun Solaris Kodak Color Management System Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Title : Sun Solaris Kodak Color Management System Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-0287
CVE ID : CVE-2007-0503
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : No
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2007-01-23
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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is due to an error within the Kodak Color Management System (KCMS) utilities when handling malformed arguments passed to the "/usr/openwin/bin/kcms_calibrate" command, which could allow malicious users to execute arbitrary commands with "root" privileges.
Affected Products
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9
Solution
Sun Solaris 8 (SPARC) - Apply patch 111400-04 or later
Sun Solaris 9 (SPARC) - Apply patch 114636-04 or later
Solaris 8 (x86) - Apply patch 111401-04 or later
Solaris 9 (x86) - Apply patch 114637-04 or later
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0287
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102728-1
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Cees-Bart Breunesse (University of Nijmegen)
ChangeLog
2007-01-23 : Initial release
Vulnerability Management
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