CVE-2006-3159 Information

Description

pipe_master in Sun ONE/iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003) allows local users to read portions of restricted files via a symlink attack on msg.conf in a directory identified by the CONFIGROOT environment variable which returns the first line of the file in an error message.

Reference

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-June/046920.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20919 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016312 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016416 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102496-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18749 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2633 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27220