CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0565

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-08-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-08-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.5 • sun solaris 2.5.1 • sun solaris 2.6 • sun solaris 7.0 • sun solaris 8.0 • sun sunos (<= 5.9) • sun sunos • sun sunos 5.5 • sun sunos 5.5.1 • sun sunos 5.7

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