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CVE-1999-1432

First published: Thu Jul 16 1998(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Sun Solaris=2.4
Sun Solaris=2.5.1
Sun Solaris=2.5.1
Sun Solaris=2.5
Sun SunOS=5.5
Sun SunOS=5.4
Sun SunOS=5.5.1
Sun Solaris=2.6
Sun SunOS

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