National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3159

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-2633

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2633

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016312

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016312

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20060614 Sun iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 root password compromise

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/046920.html

External Source: XF

Name: iplanet-msgconf-symlink(27220)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27220

External Source: BID

Name: 18749

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18749

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 102496

Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102496-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016416

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016416

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20919

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20919