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CVE-2001-0353

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
• Sunos: 5.7, 5.8

References

• 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
• 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

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