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CVE-2003-0609

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the runtime linker, ld.so.1, on Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

Affected products

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

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105951760418667&w=2
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/55680
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/07.29.03.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/8722
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12755
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3601
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105951760418667&w=2
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/55680
• http://www.idefense.com/advisory/07.29.03.txt
• http://www.osvdb.org/8722
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12755
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3601

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