HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	7627
Class:	Unknown
CVE:
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	May 19 2003 12:00AM
Updated:	May 19 2003 12:00AM
Credit:	This vulnerability was disclosed in HP security bulletin HPSBUX0305-259.
Vulnerable:	HP HP-UX 11.0 HP HP-UX 10.20
Not Vulnerable:

HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The HP-UX implementation of Kermit has been reported prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

The issue can be exploited by a local attacker to achieve elevated privileges.

This issue has been reported to affect HP9000 Series 700/800 that are running HP-UX releases 10.20 and 11.00. Other versions are not known to be affected.

HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

HP-UX Kermit Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• HP IT Resource Center (for Europe) (HP IT Resource Center)
  
• HP IT Resource Center (for US, Canada, Asia-Pacific, & Latin-America) (HP IT Resource Center)