Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	36510
Class:	Unknown
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Sep 23 2009 12:00AM
Updated:	Sep 24 2009 03:40PM
Credit:	Sun
Vulnerable:	Sun Solaris 10_x86 Sun Solaris 10
Not Vulnerable:

Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. This issue may also allow attackers to bypass the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policy.

A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code with superuser privileges or gain access to restricted data.

Computers that have Solaris Trusted Extensions installed and configured on Solaris 10 running on x86 or SPARC platforms are affected.

Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and fixes. Please see the references for details.


Sun Solaris 10_x86

• Sun 126366-15
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21 -126366-15-1


• Sun 139621-01
  http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=urn:cds:docid:1-21 -139621-01-1

Sun Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• 267488 Solaris Trusted Extensions Common Desktop Environment (CDE) (Sun)