CVE-2001-0353: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the line printer daemon (in.lpd) for Solaris 8 and earlier allows local and remote attackers to gain root privileges via a "transfer job" routine.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2001-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.