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Vigil@nce: Solaris, denial of service of in.lpd
August 2009 by Vigil@nce
An attacker can force the print service of Solaris to consume
several resources.
Severity: 1/4
Consequences: denial of service of service
Provenance: intranet client
Means of attack: no proof of concept, no attack
Ability of attacker: expert (4/4)
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5)
Diffusion of the vulnerable configuration: high (3/3)
Creation date: 26/08/2009
IMPACTED PRODUCTS
– Sun Solaris
– Sun Trusted Solaris
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The in.lpd print service listens on the port 515/tcp.
An attacker can connect to this port and force in.lpd to create
numerous processes with fork() and exec(). Technical details are
unknown.
An attacker can therefore force the print service of Solaris to
consume several resources.
CHARACTERISTICS
Identifiers: 264608, 4635978, VIGILANCE-VUL-8974
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Solaris-denial-of-service-of-in-lpd-8974
