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.
EPSS: 0.004 (33.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sun Solaris — versions 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
- Sun Sunos — versions 5.7, 5.8
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_SUNALERT, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, government-resource, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_CIAC, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)