CVE-2002-0994 (GCVE-0-2002-0994)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-08-31 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:12
VLAI
Summary
SunPCi II VNC uses a weak authentication scheme, which allows remote attackers to obtain the VNC password by sniffing the random byte challenge, which is used as the key for encrypted communications.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5146 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/… mailing-listx_refsource_VULNWATCH
Date Public
2002-07-03 00:00
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