Title: SCO UnixWare 'xauto' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Certain versions of SCO's UnixWare ship with a version of /usr/X/bin/xauto which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack which may result in an attacker gaining root privileges.
This is exploitable to gain root privileges even though /usr/X/bin/xauto is not setuid root. This is due to a system design issue with SCO Unixware which is discussed in an attached message in the 'Credit' section titled "UnixWare 7 uidadmin exploit + discussion".
Affected Products:
- SCO Unixware 7.0.0
- SCO Unixware 7.0.1
- SCO Unixware 7.1.0
- SCO Unixware 7.1.1
References:
- SCO: SCO Secure Technologies Group
- SCO: Vendor Homepage
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