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Published: 2 May 2002 16:42 GMT
A dangerous hole in the Solaris operating system has been found, according to top US security experts.
An advisory from the world-respected CERT lab at Carnegie Mellon University today warned of a format string vulnerability in Solaris versions 2, 7 and 8.
CERT said a proof of concept exploit had already been written for the vulnerability, but no known malicious code was in the wild.
It added the flaw is difficult to exploit remotely.
For more information and patches see:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-10.html
And:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/securitypatch
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