Oracle Solaris CVE-2017-3622 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description: Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite (subcomponent: Common Desktop Environment (CDE)). The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily “exploitable” vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Solaris executes to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in takeover of Solaris.

Impact: A local attacker may exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges on the affected system.

Mitigation: Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

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