CVE-2001-1582

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2001-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the LDAP naming services library (libsldap) in Sun Solaris 8 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long LDAP_OPTIONS environment variable to a privileged program that uses libsldap.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 8.0-unkown
Sunos: 5.8

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jul/0077.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jul/0091.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jun/0365.html
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5IP0O2A4KS.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2931
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jul/0077.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jul/0091.html
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2001/Jun/0365.html
http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5IP0O2A4KS.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2931

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