A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and potentially compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by errors in the Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Thai language input methods that create writable or readable directories (i.e. ".iiim/le" and ".Xlocale") in users home directories, which could allow a local unprivileged user (or remote user if the affected files are shared remotely, for example via NFS) to read and modify directories and files in another user's home directory.
Note: This issue only impacts systems with the Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Korean, and Thai language locales installed.
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Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-02-07 : Initial release
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