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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-03-09T05:00:00

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

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

Link: CVE-1999-1432

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:26:22.357

Link: CVE-1999-1432

cve-icon Redhat

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