Solaris 10 and prior [Medium]

By Security Team on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Solaris 10 and prior [Medium]

Description

Race condition in the dircmp script in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris snv_01 through snv_111, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, probably involving a symlink attack on temporary files.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-1207
Severity: Medium

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