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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY

A local attacker can use the Dynamic Loader, in order to create a
denial of service or to elevate his privileges.

Severity: 2/4

Creation date: 06/07/2011

IMPACTED PRODUCTS

– HP-UX

DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY

The Dynamic Loader of HP-UX (/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so) loads
dynamic libraries, which are required to execute a program.

A local attacker can use the Dynamic Loader, in order to create a
denial of service or to elevate his privileges.

Technical details are unknown.

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