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Secunia Advisory SA8022

Sun Cobalt and LX50 CVS vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA8022
Secunia VIM 4.0 - Free Trial
Release Date 2003-02-10
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Report reliability This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Solution Status Partial Fix
   
Systems affected This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
Approve distribution This information is available to Secunia VIM customers
   
Operating System
Sun Cobalt Qube 2
Sun Cobalt Qube 3
Sun Cobalt RaQ 2
Sun Cobalt RaQ 3
Sun Cobalt RaQ 4
Sun Cobalt RaQ 550
Sun Cobalt RaQ CacheRaQ 3
Sun Cobalt RaQ CacheRaQ 4
Sun Cobalt RaQ XTR
Sun Linux 5.x
Secunia CVSS Score This information is available to Secunia VIM Customers
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.
  

Description

Sun Microsystems has confirmed the existence of the CVS double-free vulnerability in all Sun Cobalt versions as well as their Linux distribution (LX50).

Remote exploitation could provide a malicious user with system access using the CVS server's privileges.

More information:
http://secunia.com/advisories/7909/


Solution
Sun Microsystems has suggested that customers disable the CVS server until patches are released.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

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Subject: Sun Cobalt and LX50 CVS vulnerability
 
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