Detections
Analytics
CVE-2003-1033
high
Description
The (1) instdbmsrv and (2) instlserver programs in SAP DB Development Tools 7.x trust the user-provided INSTROOT environment variable as a path when assigning setuid permissions to the lserver program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a modified INSTROOT that points to a malicious dbmsrv or lserver program.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11842
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7408
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7407
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105103613727471&w=2
http://listserv.sap.com/pipermail/sapdb.sources/2003-April/000143.html