CVE-2002-0573

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2002-07-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.6, 7.0, 8.0
Sunos: 5.7, 5.8

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0049.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270268
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-10.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8971.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/638099
http://www.osvdb.org/778
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4639
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A41
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A79
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0049.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/270268
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-10.html

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