Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-1999-1137
The permissions for the /dev/audio device on Solaris 2.2 and earlier, and SunOS 4.1.x, allow any local user to read from the device, which could be used by an attacker to monitor conversations happening near a machine that has a microphone.
EPSS: 0.004 (29.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sun Solaris
- Sun Sunos — versions 4.1, 5.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_SUN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, government-resource, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CIAC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)