Vigil@nce - IBM TSM: privilege escalation via Race Condition
March 2015 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
A local attacker can use the IBM TSM Unix/Linux client, in order
to escalate his privileges.
Impacted products: Tivoli Storage Manager
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 16/02/2015
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The IBM Tivoli Storage Manager product installs a client on
Unix/Linux environments.
However, a local attacker can use a race condition, to escalate
his privileges. Technical details are unknown.
A local attacker can therefore use the IBM TSM Unix/Linux client,
in order to escalate his privileges.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/IBM-TSM-privilege-escalation-via-Race-Condition-16200