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CVE-2003-1067

• 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: 2003-06-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) dbm_open function, as used in ndbm and dbm, and the (2) dbminit function in Solaris 2.6 through 9 allow local users to gain root privileges via long arguments to Xsun or other programs that use these functions.

Affected products

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

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/9088/
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55420-1
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-108.shtml
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7991
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12379
• http://secunia.com/advisories/9088/
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55420-1
• http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-108.shtml
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2014-1972949.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64758

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