CVE-2001-0353 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Buffer overflow in the line printer daemon (in.lpd) for Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to gain root privileges via a "transfer job" routine.

Published: 2001-09-18

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 1.5% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:2.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:7.0::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:solaris:8.0::x86:::::
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:-:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.7:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos:5.8:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-0353	Buffer overflow in the line printer daemon (in.lpd) for Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to gain root privileges via a "transfer job" routine.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01477.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/206
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-15.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2894
http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise80.php
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6718

History

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Subscriptions

Sun Solaris Sunos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-18T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:14:07.432Z

Reserved: 2001-05-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-0353

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-07-21T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-0353

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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