CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0421

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2001-07-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-07-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Description

FTP server in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to cause a core dump in the root directory, possibly with world-readable permissions, by providing a valid username with an invalid password followed by a CWD ~ command, which could release sensitive information such as shadowed passwords, or fill the disk partition.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.6 • sun sunos (<= 5.9)

References