CVE-2003-1071

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-1071
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-01-03 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptionrpc.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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Sun Solaris 2.5.1 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Solaris 2.6 All All All
Operating System Sun Solaris 7.0 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Solaris 8.0 All x86 All
Operating System Sun Solaris 9.0 All sparc All
Operating System Sun Sunos - All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.5.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.7 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 5.8 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Sun Solaris Wall Spoofed Message Origin Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
(Sun Issues Fix) Re: 'wall' (/usr/sbin/wall) Bug Lets Local Users Spoof Broadcast Messages - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
Secunia - Advisories - Solaris spoofing vulnerability in wall af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - 'wall' (/usr/sbin/wall) Bug Lets Local Users Spoof Broadcast Messages af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
#51980: The wall(1M) Command May be Used to Send Messages Containing a Forged User ID java.lang.NullPointerException af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sunsolve.sun.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#944241 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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