CVE-2003-1071

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

rpc.walld (wall daemon) for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to send messages to logged on users that appear to come from arbitrary user IDs by closing stderr before executing wall, then supplying a spoofed from header.

rpc.walld (wall daemon) for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to send messages to logged on users that appear to come from arbitrary user IDs by closing stderr before executing wall, then supplying a spoofed from header.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 22 years ago

2003-01-03 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Sun Solaris 2.6

2.6

Sun SunOS (formerly Solaris)

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1

5.5.1

Sun Microsystems Solaris 7

5.7

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

References

7825

Vendor Advisory

51980

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#944241

Exploit, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

20030103 Solaris 2.x /usr/sbin/wall Advisory

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

6509

1005882

1006682

solaris-wall-message-spoofing(11608)

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