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SCO OpenServer Backupsh Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The 'backupsh' utility is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability.

The vulnerability presents itself when the utility processes excessive data, which may corrupt process memory. The specific details about this issue are not currently available.

A successful attack allows arbitrary machine code execution with group backup privileges.

OpenServer 5.0.7 is reported prone to this issue.

The 'authsh' utility is also vulnerable to this issue; successful exploitation could result in an attacker gaining group auth privileges.







 

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