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CVE-1999-0973
- Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 1999-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.
Affected products
- Sun Solaris: 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0
- Sunos: 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.7
References
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