CVE-1999-0786: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dynamic linker in Solaris allows a local user to create arbitrary files via the LD_PROFILE environmental variable and a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only

Published 1999-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.