CVE-2003-1066

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Buffer overflow in the syslog daemon for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (syslogd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long syslog UDP packets.

Buffer overflow in the syslog daemon for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (syslogd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long syslog UDP packets.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Sun

First reported 21 years ago

2003-12-31 05:00:00

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

8944

Patch

55440

Vendor Advisory

20030604 Solaris syslogd overflow

7820

Patch

sun-syslogd-bo(12194)

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