Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-1999-1432
Power management (Powermanagement) on Solaris 2.4 through 2.6 does not start the xlock process until after the sys-suspend has completed, which allows an attacker with physical access to input characters to the last active application from the keyboard for a short period after the system is restoring, which could lead to increased privileges.
EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)