Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0422 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
sun
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2001-07-02
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

Buffer overflow in Xsun in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long HOME environmental variable.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
7

Exploit-Db

descriptionSolaris 2.x/7.0/8 Xsun HOME Buffer Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2001-0422. Local exploit for solaris platform
idEDB-ID:20743
last seen2016-02-02
modified2001-04-10
published2001-04-10
reporterRiley Hassell
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/20743/
titleSolaris 2.x/7.0/8 Xsun HOME Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Oval

accepted2005-02-23T09:25:00.000-04:00
classvulnerability
contributors
nameBrian Soby
organizationThe MITRE Corporation
descriptionBuffer overflow in Xsun in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long HOME environmental variable.
familyunix
idoval:org.mitre.oval:def:555
statusaccepted
submitted2004-12-28T12:00:00.000-04:00
titleXsun Buffer Overflow via HOME Envvar
version35

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