CVE-2003-1068

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: 2003-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in utmp_update for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges, as identified by Sun BugID 4659277, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1082.

Affected products

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

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/8957/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55260-1
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-105.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7835
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11083
http://secunia.com/advisories/8957/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-55260-1
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-105.shtml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7835
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11083

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