CVE-2006-3159 (GCVE-0-2006-3159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-06-22 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:16
VLAI
Summary
pipe_master in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) allows local users to read portions of restricted files via a symlink attack on msg.conf in a directory identified by the CONFIGROOT environment variable, which returns the first line of the file in an error message.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016416 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016312 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2633 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18749 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/20919 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2006-06-14 00:00
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