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SCO_root_exploit.txt

Greetings, A vulnerability exists in the /usr/lib/merge/dos7utils program suid root by default which allows any user to execute any command as root. The dos7utils program gets its localeset.sh exec path from the environment variable STATICMERGE. By setting this to a directory writable by us and...

solaris_bof.txt

Subject: Solaris 2.7 /usr/bin/mail To: [email protected] Greetings, There is a possible buffer overflow vulnerability in Solaris 2.7's sgid mail /usr/bin/mail. The reason it's only a possibility and not a full blow exploit is that mail drops sgid privs before the overflow occurs. However ...