Sun Microsystems Advisory #190 - Patch available for the overflow ISS discovered in Solaris snoop. The snoop program captures packets from the network and displays their contents. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered which may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary instructions and gain root access. The buffer overflow occurs when snoop analyzes certain types of large requests to the rquotad rpc service.
Sun Microsystems Advisory #190 - Patch available for the overflow ISS discovered in Solaris snoop. The snoop program captures packets from the network and displays their contents. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered which may be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary instructions and gain root access. The buffer overflow occurs when snoop analyzes certain types of large requests to the rquotad rpc service.