Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0786 - Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
sun
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1999-09-22
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

The dynamic linker in Solaris allows a local user to create arbitrary files via the LD_PROFILE environmental variable and a symlink attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
8

Exploit-Db

descriptionSolaris 2.6 Profiling File Creation Vulnerability. CVE-1999-0786. Local exploit for solaris platform
idEDB-ID:19509
last seen2016-02-02
modified1999-09-22
published1999-09-22
reporterSteve Mynott
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19509/
titleSolaris <= 2.6 Profiling File Creation Vulnerability

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