CVE-ID

CVE-2000-0055

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Description
Buffer overflow in Solaris chkperm command allows local users to gain root access via a long -n option.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20000122 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Proposed (20000125)
Votes (Legacy)
MODIFY(2) Baker, Frech
NOOP(1) Dik
Comments (Legacy)
 Frech> XF:sol-chkperm-bo(3870)
 Dik> chkperm runs set-uid bin, so initially the access granted
   will be user bin, not root.  (Though bin access can easily be leveraged
   to root access, less so in Solaris 8+)
   Also, there is reason to believe this bug is not exploitable; the buffer
   overflown is declared in the stack in main(); yet, the program never
   returns from main() but calls exit instead so any damage to return addresses
   is never noticed.
 Baker> Maybe the details from Caspar could be included, or modify the description somewhat

Proposed (Legacy)
20000125
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