CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0973

10.0 HIGH Published 1999-12-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-12-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.4 • sun solaris 2.5 • sun solaris 2.5.1 • sun solaris 2.6 • sun solaris 7.0 • sun sunos • sun sunos 5.3 • sun sunos 5.4 • sun sunos 5.5 • sun sunos 5.5.1 • sun sunos 5.7

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