HP-UX LPAdmin Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:5582

Info

HP-UX LPAdmin Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5582
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 28 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 28 2002 12:00AM
Credit: Vulnerability announced by HP.
Vulnerable: HP HP-UX 11.11
HP HP-UX 11.0
HP HP-UX 10.20
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

HP-UX LPAdmin Unspecified Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

HP-UX is the Unix Operating System variant distributed and maintained by HP.

HP has announced that an unspecified buffer overflow exists in HP-UX. The problem is reported as a core dump that occurs under certain conditions. As lpadmin is typically installed with setuid privileges, it could be possible for a local attacker to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary instructions with elevated privileges.

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