Preemptive Protection against Sun Solaris sadmind RPC Request Buffer Overflow

A buffer overflow vulnerability was identified in the sadmind service within the Sun Solaris operating system. sadmind is a daemon used to control the servers running Sun Solaris operating system. The vulnerability is due to an input validation error occurring when parsing specially crafted RPC...

RPC sadmind Service In Use

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Sun Solstice AdminSuite ships with insecure default configuration

Overview The sadmind service provided on many Solaris and SunOS systems ships with an insecure default configuration that allows remote users to execute arbitrary commands with superuser root privileges. Description The Sun Microsystems Solstice AdminSuite is a graphical tool that allows Solaris...