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CVE-2008-5099

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2008-11-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Sun Logical Domain Manager (aka LDoms Manager or ldm) 1.0 through 1.0.3 displays the value of the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) security-password variable in cleartext, which allows local users to bypass the SPARC firmware's password protection, and gain privileges or obtain data access, via the "ldm ls -l" command, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4992.

Affected Platforms

Sun Logical Domain Manager

Weakness Type

CWE-200

References