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CVE-1999-1432
Published: Mar 9, 2002
Modified: Aug 1, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
19980716 Security risk with powermanagemnet on Solaris 2.6
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