CVE-2003-1071

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

rpc.walld (wall daemon) for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to send messages to logged on users that appear to come from arbitrary user IDs by closing stderr before executing wall, then supplying a spoofed from header.

Affected products

Sun Solaris: 2.5.1, 2.6, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
Sunos: 5.5.1, 5.7, 5.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/7825/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-51980-1
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/944241
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305105
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6509
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1005882
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1006682
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11608
http://secunia.com/advisories/7825/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-51980-1
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/944241
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/305105

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