CVE-2004-1942 (GCVE-0-2004-1942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-05-10 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:07
VLAI
Summary
The Solaris 9 patches 113579-02 through 113579-05, and 114342-02 through 114342-05, prevent ypserv and ypxfrd from properly restricting access to secure NIS maps, which allows local users to use ypcat or ypmatch to extract the contents of a secure map such as passwd.adjunct.byname.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108241638500417&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/o-144.shtml third-party-advisorygovernment-resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10261 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-04-19 00:00
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