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vulnerability bulletin 8803

Solaris: denial of service via lp

Synthesis of the vulnerability

A local attacker can use the lp command to cancel print jobs owned by root.
Severity: 1/4.
Creation date: 16/06/2009.

Impacted products

Description of the vulnerability

The lp command is used to print a file.

A local attacker can use the lp command to cancel print jobs owned by root.

Technical details are unknown.

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Solaris: denial of service via lp

Characteristics

Title: Solaris: denial of service via lp.
Keywords: Solaris denial service.
Identifiers: 247386, 6759604, BID-35400, VIGILANCE-VUL-8803.

Information sources

Publications and announces
Source example: Part II - Multiple Printing Regressions in Solaris 10 Kernel Patches 127127-11 and 127128-11

Solutions for this vulnerability

Patch or workaround

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