Sun Solaris NFS 'netgroups' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Sun Solaris NFS 'netgroups' Security Bypass Vulnerability

Sun Solaris is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability due to an unspecified error.

A successful attack will allow an unauthorized remote user to gain superuser access to shared NFS resources on the vulnerable system with 'netgroups' access configured.

This issue affects Sun Solaris 10 with the following kernel patches:

- kernel patches 120011-04 (and later) that are prior to 127111-05 on SPARC platforms
- kernel patches 120012-04 (and later) that are prior to 127954-03 on x86 platforms