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CVE-2002-2197

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unknown vulnerability in Sun Solaris 8.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a program that uses /dev/poll, triggering a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: 8.0
• Sunos: 5.8

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F45300&zone_32=45300
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9489.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5171
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F45300&zone_32=45300
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9489.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5171

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