CVE-2003-1066

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the syslog daemon for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (syslogd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long syslog UDP packets.

Affected products

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

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/8944/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55440-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/324015
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7820
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12194
http://secunia.com/advisories/8944/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55440-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/324015
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7820
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12194

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