Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-2001-0565
Buffer overflow in mailx in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long '-F' command line option.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (68.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 69th percentile — 68.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.7
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8246 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/2610 (vdb-entry)
- online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/184210 (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446864 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0016.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, Patch)