FrSIRT - Sun Solaris "printd" Daemon Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability / Exploit (Security Advisories)

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Sun Solaris "printd" Daemon Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Title : Sun Solaris "printd" Daemon Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1342
CVE ID : CVE-2005-4797
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-09

Advisory Details

Description

Affected Products

Solution

References

Technical Description

A vulnerability was identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by attackers to remove any file on the system [...]

References

http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1342
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101842-1

Credits

Vulnerability reported by H.D. Moore

ChangeLog

2005-08-09 : Initial release

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