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Title : Sun Solaris "sadmind" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2824
CVE ID : CVE-2008-4556
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-10-15

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A vulnerability has been identified in Sun Solaris, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by a stack overflow error in the "adm_build_path()" function within the Solstice AdminSuite administration daemon (sadmind) when processing malformed requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Adriano Lima (RISE Security).

ChangeLog

2008-10-15 : Initial release
2008-11-14 : Updated References

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