CVE-2009-4211 (GCVE-0-2009-4211)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:54
VLAI
Summary
The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Readiness Review (SRR) script for the Solaris x86 platform executes files in arbitrary directories as root for filenames equal to (1) java, (2) openssl, (3) php, (4) snort, (5) tshark, (6) vncserver, or (7) wireshark, which allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse program.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/433821 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023265 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37200 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508188/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2009-12-03 00:00
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