Description
Power management (Powermanagement) on Solaris 2.4 through 2.6 does not start the xlock process until after the sys-suspend has completed, which allows an attacker with physical access to input characters to the last active application from the keyboard for a short period after the system is restoring, which could lead to increased privileges.
Published: 2002-03-09
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 6.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-1413 Power management (Powermanagement) on Solaris 2.4 through 2.6 does not start the xlock process until after the sys-suspend has completed, which allows an attacker with physical access to input characters to the last active application from the keyboard for a short period after the system is restoring, which could lead to increased privileges.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:03.292Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1432

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1998-07-16T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1432

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