CVE-1999-0164

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

A race condition in the Solaris ps command allows an attacker to overwrite critical files.

A race condition in the Solaris ps command allows an attacker to overwrite critical files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Sun Microsystems Solaris

First reported 29 years ago

1995-08-29 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-09 12:33:00

Affected Software

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.3

5.3

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.4

5.4

References

8346

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