CVE-2003-1071

N/A
Published: February 8, 2005 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:03 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsSolarisSunos

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

Description

rpc.walld (wall daemon) for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to send messages to logged on users that appear to come from arbitrary user IDs by closing stderr before executing wall, then supplying a spoofed from header.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (8)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/7825/
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNExploitUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/944241
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305105

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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