Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-1999-1026

aspppd on Solaris 2.5 x86 allows local users to modify arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the /tmp/.asppp.fifo file.

EPSS: 0.009 (54.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Solaris — versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)