Arbitrary Program Execution Vulnerability in LSF 5.1's ckconfig Command

CVE-2003-0337 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The ckconfig command in lsadmin for Load Sharing Facility (LSF) 5.1 allows local users to execute arbitrary programs by modifying the LSF_ENVDIR environment variable to reference an alternate lsf.conf file, then modifying LSF_SERVERDIR to point to a malicious lim program, which lsadmin then executes.

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