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Vulnerability Assessment Details

sadmin service

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
checks the presence of a RPC service

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The sadmin RPC service is running.
There is a bug in Solaris versions of this service that permit an intruder to
execute arbitrary commands on your system.

Solution : disable this service
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 8615, 866

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 1999 Renaud Deraison

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