CVE-2001-0652

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2001-10-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Heap overflow in xlock in Solaris 2.6 through 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long (1) XFILESEARCHPATH or (2) XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environmental variable.

Affected products

Sunos: through 5.9

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99745571104126&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3160
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6967
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A131
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=99745571104126&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3160
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6967
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A131

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