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CVE-2001-0526

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2001-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the Xview library as used by mailtool in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain privileges via the OPENWINHOME environment variable.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 8.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0258.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6626
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0258.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6626

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