A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Remote Services (SRS) Net Connect Software, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an unspecified format string error which may allow an unprivileged local user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Sean Larsson (iDefense Labs).
ChangeLog
2007-11-05 : Initial release
2007-11-06 : Updated References
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