CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-0652

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Heap overflow in xlock in Solaris 2.6 through 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long (1) XFILESEARCHPATH or (2) XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environmental variable.

Risk Assessment

Local users can exploit this vulnerability to gain full system privileges, posing a serious security threat.

Recommendation

It is recommended to restrict access to environment variables and update the system to a newer version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Heap overflow in xlock in Solaris 2.6 through 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long (1) XFILESEARCHPATH or (2) XUSERFILESEARCHPATH environmental variable.

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