Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-1999-0973

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

EPSS: 0.035 (87.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Solaris — versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
Sun Sunos — versions 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)