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Vulnerability Report: Sun Solaris 8
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This vulnerability report for Sun Solaris 8 contains a complete overview of all Secunia advisories affecting it. You can use this vulnerability report to ensure that you are aware of all vulnerabilities, both patched and unpatched, affecting this product allowing you to take the necessary precautions.
If you have information about a new or an existing vulnerability in Sun Solaris 8 then you are more than welcome to contact us.
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Vendor, Links, and Unpatched Vulnerabilities
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Sun Microsystems
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Affected By
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228 Secunia advisories
369 Vulnerabilities
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Unpatched
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6% (14 of 228 Secunia advisories)
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Most Critical Unpatched
The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting Sun Solaris 8, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Highly critical  .
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41 Secunia Advisories in 2003
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Secunia has issued a total of 41 Secunia advisories in 2003 for Sun Solaris 8. Currently, 7% (3 out of 41) are marked as unpatched with the most severe being rated Less critical 
More information about the specific Secunia advisories affecting Sun Solaris 8 can be found below. Each Secunia advisory is enclosed by a box highlighted with a color representing its current patch status. You can read the complete Secunia advisories for thorough descriptions of the issues covered and for solution suggestions by clicking either the Secunia advisory title or the "Read More" links available for each Secunia advisory.
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Release Date:
2003-12-23 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10486 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10430 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported some unspecified vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-11 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10411 |
Solution Status:
Unpatched |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-08 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10384 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-12-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10346 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges or cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-11-28 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10307 |
Solution Status:
Unpatched |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to poison the DNS cache with negative entries. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-11-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10267 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-11-14 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10226 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in the CDE DtHelp Library for Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-29 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10094 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10007 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-15 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA10006 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to potentially gain knowledge of sensitive information. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-10-04 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9938 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of system information
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in the Sun Solaris Am7990 ("LANCE") Ethernet Driver, which can be exploited by malicious people to obtain potentially sensitive information. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9808 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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From remote |
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Short Description:
Sun has acknowledged a vulnerability in Solaris, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-09-16 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9742 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Workaround |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has issued a security alert for Sun Solaris to raise awareness of the known insecure default configuration of sadmind (Solstice Administration Daemon) because an exploit has been discovered in the wild. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-08-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9415 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has issued patches to fix an unspecified Denial of Service vulnerability. This allows malicious, local users to cause a kernel panic. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-30 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9388 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in the ld.so.1 library. This could be exploited through different applications to escalate privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9353 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has issued updated patches for Sun Solaris 8 due to errors in patches 108993-14 through 108993-19 and 108994-14 through 108994-19 allowing malicious local users to crash automountd. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-07-22 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9323 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris 8 allowing malicious people to crash the system if IPv6 support is enabled. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA9088 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported some vulnerabilities in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-06 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8957 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by a malicious, local user to escalate privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-05 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8944 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-06-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8935 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-29 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8685 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris. A malicious person can cause a DoS (Denial of Service) on the rpcbind service, which will block traffic to all RPC services on the vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-29 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8686 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris 8. An unprivileged, malicious, local user can exploit an error in the "lofiadm" command to cause a kernel memory leak. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8533 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Samba is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which can be exploited by anonymous users. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8501 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain root privileges on a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-04-01 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8468 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun Solaris has been found vulnerable to a privilege escalation vulnerability in "dtsession". [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-30 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8446 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Sendmail, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-28 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8443 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Sun has reported a vulnerability in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-20 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8347 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability identified in multiple *NIX operating systems and software can be exploited by malicious people to conduct a DoS attack (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system or potentially compromise it. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8299 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
System access
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Where:
From local network |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been identified in Samba, which can be exploited by a malicious person to compromise a vulnerable server. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-06 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8235 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability in SUN Solaris can be exploited by a malicious, local user to perform a DoS attack (Denial of Service) on a vulnerable system or escalate privileges to "root". [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-03-03 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8186 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
[Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-19 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8092 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability identified in Sun Solaris can be exploited by a malicious person to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-02-14 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA8058 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
[Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-29 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7968 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-28 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7960 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
Solaris ships with the 'at' command used to schedule commands. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7944 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
DoS
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
Sun Solaris Enterprise Authentication Mechanism (SEAM) is vulnerable to a Denial of Service. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-24 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7941 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
System access
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Where:
From remote |
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Short Description:
Sun Solaris ships with Kodak Color Management System (KCMS). KCMS contains a directory traversal vulnerability, allowing users to retrieve any file as KCMS (kcms_server) runs with root privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-17 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7892 |
Solution Status:
Vendor Patch |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Privilege escalation
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Where:
Local system |
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Short Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Sun Solaris, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges. [Read More]
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Release Date:
2003-01-07 |
Secunia Advisory ID:
SA7825 |
Solution Status:
Unpatched |
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Criticality:
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Impact:
Spoofing
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Where:
Local system |
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Short 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. [Read More]
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