CVE-1999-1192: Sun Sunos

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in eeprom in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected products

• Sun Sunos: up to and including 5.5.1; version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only

Published 1997-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.