CVE-1999-0977: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 12.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Solaris sadmind allows remote attackers to gain root privileges using a NETMGT_PROC_SERVICE request.

Affected products

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

Published 1999-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.