Vulnerability in Sun Solaris
CVE-2003-1067
Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) dbm_open function, as used in ndbm and dbm, and the (2) dbminit function in Solaris 2.6 through 9 allow local users to gain root privileges via long arguments to Xsun or other programs that use these functions.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (32.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 32nd percentile — 32.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.7, 5.8
References
- secunia.com/advisories/9088/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12379 (vdb-entry)
- www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-108.shtml (Patch, government-resource, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/7991 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758 (vdb-entry)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html