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Sun Solaris Netscape Portable Runtime API Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The Netscape Portable Runtime API running on Sun Solaris 10 operating system is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

A successful exploit of this issue allows an attacker to gain superuser privileges, completely compromising the affected computer.

Version 4.6.1 running on Sun Solaris 10 is vulnerable to this issue.