Title: Sun Solaris libgss Unspecified Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
The Sun Solaris libgss library is prone to an unspecified local privilege escalation vulnerability. This may allow a local unprivileged user to load the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) when a privileged GSS-API application is installed that calls the libgss library.
By default Sun does not ship any privileged GSS-API applications that call the libgss library. There may be other third-party applications that run with privileges.
Specific details of this vulnerability are not currently known. This record will be updated when more information becomes available.
Affected Products:
- Sun Solaris 7.0
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 9
- Sun Solaris 9_x86
- Sun Solaris 9_x86 Update 2
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