CVE-1999-1432

published 1998-07-16

CVE-1999-1432: 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…

Priority P4 26 high 7.5 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C P I P A P

EXPLOIT

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.

Affected

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	solaris	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—
sun	sunos	—	—

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