CVE-1999-0973: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.4 only; version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

Published 1999-12-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.