CVE-2002-0084

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-03-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the fscache_setup function of cachefsd in Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long mount argument.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.6, 8.0
Sunos: 5.7

References

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/04/msg00416.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F44309
http://www.esecurityonline.com/advisories/eSO4198.asp
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/161931
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A43
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A97
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/04/msg00416.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F44309
http://www.esecurityonline.com/advisories/eSO4198.asp
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/161931
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A43
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A97

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