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Article ID: 10239
Last updated: 27 Jan, 2009
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Posted: 22 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.
Updated: 27 Jan, 2009
by: Tech Pubs S.

tooltalk service

This script is Copyright (C) 1999 Renaud Deraison

FamilyRPC
Plugin ID10239
Bugtraq ID122
641
CVE IDCVE-1999-0003
CVE-1999-0693

Description:

The tooltalk RPC service is running.

A possible implementation fault in the ToolTalk object database server may allow an
attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root.

*** This warning may be a false positive since the presence of this vulnerability is only
**** accurately identified with local access.

Solution : Disable this service.
See also : CERT Advisory CA-98.11
Risk factor : High
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