Sun Solaris ZFS Filesystem Security Bypass

06 November 2009
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Sun Solaris is exposed to a security bypass issue that affects the ZFS filesystem. A local attacker with "file_chown_self" privileges can exploit this issue to gain ownership of other user's files resulting in privilege escalation and other attacks. Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris builds snv_100 through snv_117 are affected by this issue.

Ref: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-265908-1

09.44.24 - CVE: Not Available
Platform: Solaris