CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1432

7.5 HIGH Published 1998-07-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-07-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.4 • sun solaris 2.5 • sun solaris 2.5.1 • sun solaris 2.6 • sun sunos • sun sunos 5.4 • sun sunos 5.5 • sun sunos 5.5.1

References