CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0573

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-07-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-07-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.6 • sun solaris 7.0 • sun solaris 8.0 • sun sunos • sun sunos 5.7 • sun sunos 5.8

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String weakness

References