bugtraq - CVE-2020-2696 - Local privilege escalation via CDE dtsession

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Message-ID: <95028CB2-6E97-4738-A8F7-5796D6DBA191@mediaservice.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:55:07 +0000
From: Marco Ivaldi <marco.ivaldi@...iaservice.net>
To: "bugtraq@...urityfocus.com" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>
Subject: CVE-2020-2696 - Local privilege escalation via CDE dtsession 

Dear Bugtraq,

Please find attached an advisory for the following vulnerability, fixed in Oracle's Critical Patch Update (CPU) of January 2020:

"A buffer overflow in the CheckMonitor() function in the Common Desktop Environment 2.3.1 and earlier and 1.6 and earlier, as distributed with Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 (Update 11) and earlier, allows local users to gain root privileges via a long palette name passed to dtsession in a malicious .Xdefaults file."

For further information, please refer to:
https://techblog.mediaservice.net/2020/01/local-privilege-escalation-via-cde-dtsession/
https://github.com/0xdea/exploits/blob/master/solaris/raptor_dtsession_ipa.c 

Regards,

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Marco Ivaldi, Offensive Security Manager
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