Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-0595 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in SUN Sunos 5.7/5.8

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
sun
exploit available

Summary

Buffer overflow in the kcsSUNWIOsolf.so library in Solaris 7 and 8 allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the KCMS_PROFILES environment variable, e.g. as demonstrated using the kcms_configure program.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
2

Exploit-Db

  • descriptionSolaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 kcms_configure KCMS_PROFILES Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (2). CVE-2001-0595. Local exploit for solaris platform
    idEDB-ID:20768
    last seen2016-02-02
    modified1999-12-01
    published1999-12-01
    reporterLast Stage of Delirium
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/20768/
    titleSolaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 kcms_configure KCMS_PROFILES Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 2
  • descriptionSolaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 kcms_configure KCMS_PROFILES Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (1). CVE-2001-0595. Local exploit for solaris platform
    idEDB-ID:20767
    last seen2016-02-02
    modified1999-12-01
    published1999-12-01
    reporterLast Stage of Delirium
    sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/20767/
    titleSolaris 2.5/2.6/7.0/8 kcms_configure KCMS_PROFILES Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 1