CVE-2001-0190: Sun Solaris

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

Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/cu in Solaris 2.8 and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges by executing cu with a long program name (arg0).

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: up to and including 5.8; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

Published 2001-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.