CVE-2002-0573

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 22 years ago

2002-07-03 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 7

5.7

Sun SunOS (Solaris 8) 5.8

5.8

References

20020430 [VulnWatch] Adivosry + Exploit for Remote Root Hole in Default Installation of Popular Commercial Operating System

20020430 Adivosry + Exploit for Remote Root Hole in Default Installation of Popular Commercial Operating System

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

CA-2002-10

Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource

solaris-rwall-format-string(8971)

Patch, Vendor Advisory

VU#638099

US Government Resource

778

4639

Vendor Advisory

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:41

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:79

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