National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6558

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in (1) hvdisp and (2) rcvm in ReliantHA 1.1.4 in SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the RELIANT_PATH environment variable to point to a malicious bin/hvenv program.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: SCO

Name: SCOSA-2008.3

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/714/security/p534850/p534850.txt

External Source: BID

Name: 28624

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28624

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 5356

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5356

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30921

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30921

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 46707

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/46707

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 46706

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/46706