CVE-2002-1296

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in priocntl system call in Solaris does allows local users to execute arbitrary code via ".." sequences in the pc_clname field of a pcinfo_t structure, which cause priocntl to load a malicious kernel module.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.6, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103842619803173&w=2
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/49131
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10717.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/683673
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6262
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3637
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103842619803173&w=2
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/49131
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10717.php
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/683673
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6262
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3637

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