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Solaris spoofing vulnerability in wall
Secunia Advisory: SA7825
Release Date: 2003-01-07
Popularity: 7,755 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Spoofing
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Sun Solaris 2.6
Sun Solaris 7
Sun Solaris 8
Sun Solaris 9

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Solaris ships with wall, used to broadcast messages to users. A bug has been discovered allowing users to broadcast messages as if they originated from the root user.

This could be used in a social engineering attack. Depending on your walld implementation this may be exploitable from remote as well.

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