Sun Solaris 2.0 dtprintinfo memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in Sun Solaris 2.0 (Operating System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file dtprintinfo. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in Solaris dtprintinfo program.

The weakness was disclosed 05/10/1999 by UNYUN (Website). The advisory is available at osvdb.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-1999-0806. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (2188), Exploit-DB (19205), SecurityFocus (BID 249†) and OSVDB (6552†). The entry VDB-14644 is pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: oracle.com

Advisory: osvdb.org⛔
Researcher: UNYUN
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-1999-0806 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0806
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-14642
X-Force: 2188
SecurityFocus: 249 - Solaris dtprintinfo Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 6552 - Solaris dtprintinfo -p Option Local Overflow

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 06/21/2014 12:13 AM
Updated: 01/01/2025 03:43 AM
Changes: 06/21/2014 12:13 AM (48), 05/21/2018 10:02 AM (16), 01/01/2025 03:43 AM (19)
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