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CVE-2001-0565

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% 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 mailx in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long '-F' command line option.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
• Sunos: through 5.9; 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.7

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0016.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/184210
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446864
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2610
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8246
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-05/0016.html
• http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/184210
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446864
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2610
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8246

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