CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-0973

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
3.47%

88th percentile - higher than 88% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can remotely gain full system privileges, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Solaris system and restrict access to the snoop program in verbose mode.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS