Detections
Analytics
CVE-1999-1137
medium
Description
The permissions for the /dev/audio device on Solaris 2.2 and earlier, and SunOS 4.1.x, allow any local user to read from the device, which could be used by an attacker to monitor conversations happening near a machine that has a microphone.
References
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/549
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/e-01.shtml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/122&type=0&nav=sec.sba