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Sun Solaris RWall Daemon Syslog Format String Vulnerability

Solaris is the freely available UNIX-derivative operating system developed and distributed by Sun Microsystems.

A format-string vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. When malicious format strings are sent from one system to another, an insecure 'syslog' call may allow a remote attacker to exploit the call to execute arbitrary code.