Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-2002-0573

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

EPSS: 0.092 (94.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
  • cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_VULNWATCH)