Title: Sun Solaris Text Editors Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Sun Solaris text editors are prone to a command-execution vulnerability. Specifically, the issue occurs in Solaris text editors like vi(1), ex(1), vedit(1), view(1), and edit(1) when handling tags.
Tags may include artibrary editor commands. In conjunction with command execution or pipe functionality in the editor, an attacker may take advantage of this to execute arbitrary commands when a tag file is loaded.
An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of another user on the affected computer.
Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10 are affected.
Affected Products:
- Avaya CMS Server 12.0.0
- Avaya CMS Server 13.0.0
- Avaya CMS Server 13.1
- Avaya CMS Server 14.0
- Avaya CMS Server 14.1
- Avaya Interactive Response 2.0
- Avaya Interactive Response 3.0
- Sun Solaris 10
- Sun Solaris 10_x86
- Sun Solaris 8
- Sun Solaris 8_x86
- Sun Solaris 9
- Sun Solaris 9_x86 Update 2
References:
- Avaya: ASA-2008-387 - Manipulated Tag Files used with Solaris Text Editors May Lead to
- Eli the Bearded: tags & vim (as requested by Sven, and cc'ed to him)
- Sun: Solution 237987: Manipulated Tag Files used with Solaris Text Editors May Lead t
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