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Title: HP-UX Unspecified newgrp Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Severity: MODERATE

Description:

HP-UX includes a utility, newgrp(1), that allows users to change their group ID.

HP has released fixes for HP-UX to address an unspecified local privilege escalation in the newgrp(1) command. HP has not released any further information about this vulnerability.

Affected Products:

  • HP HP-UX 11.0.0
  • HP HP-UX 11.0.0 4
  • HP HP-UX 11.11.0

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