CVE-2001-0943 Information

Description

dbsnmp in Oracle 8.0.5 and 8.1.5 under certain conditions trusts the PATH environment variable to find and execute the (1) chown or (2) chgrp commands which allows local users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the PATH to point to Trojan Horse programs.

Reference

http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/security/pdf/dbsmp_alert.pdf http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2001/Dec/0001.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/201020 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3129