CVE-2001-0565

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in mailx in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long '-F' command line option.

Buffer overflow in mailx in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long '-F' command line option.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 23 years ago

2001-08-14 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Sun Solaris 2.6

2.6

Sun SunOS (formerly Solaris)

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5

5.5

Sun Microsystems Solaris 2.5.1

5.5.1

Sun Microsystems Solaris 7

5.7

References

20010502 Solaris mailx Vulnerability

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

20010511 Solaris /usr/bin/mailx exploit (SPARC)

VU#446864

US Government Resource

2610

solaris-mailx-f-bo(8246)

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