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Sun patches Solaris security flaw



Posted by: Bill Brenner
Network Security, Information Security Threats, Security Management, Platform Security

Companies that use Sun Microsystems’ Solaris operating system have a security fix to deploy. Sun said in an advisory in its security blog that it has addressed a flaw in the Solaris Named Pipes program, which attackers could exploit to access unauthorized memory locations. “This may allow a local unprivileged user to read potentially sensitive data in the kernel’s memory layout or in the memory layouts of other processes running on the system,” Sun said.

Solaris 8, 9 and 10 are affected.

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