Summary: A medium severity issue was found in Sun Solaris, specifically the "lpd" daemon in Solaris 8-10. No major new scanning activity to report. We are also working with many people around the world investigating the rash of SQL injections that lead to malware being loaded onto visitors' computers.

Title: Sun Solaris Print Service Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Severity Level: Elevated Severity
Published: Mon, 12 May 2008 13:56:06 +0000
Sun Solaris 8-10 is vulnerable to a set of unspecified issues in the "lpd" service (printer daemon). This service listens on TCP port 515 for incoming requests. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code using the proper exploit. Sun has released updates to address this issue.
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