A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Sun Solaris 2.4/2.5.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component nlps_server. The manipulation with the input NLPS:002:002: leads to memory corruption.

The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-1588. The attack may be initiated remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

It is recommended to apply restrictive firewalling.