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CVE-1999-0786

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1999-09-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The dynamic linker in Solaris allows a local user to create arbitrary files via the LD_PROFILE environmental variable and a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
• Sunos: 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/659

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