CVE-2003-0449 Information

Description

Progress Database 9.1 to 9.1D06 trusts user input to find and load libraries using dlopen which allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a PATH environment variable that points to malicious libraries as demonstrated using libjutil.so in_proapsv or (2) the -installdir command line parameter as demonstrated using librocket_r.so in _dbagent.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105561134624665&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105561189625082&w=2 http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-0945.txt http://www.secnetops.com/research/advisories/SRT2003-06-13-1009.txt