CVE-2001-0401: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in tip in Solaris 8 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a long HOME environmental variable.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: up to and including 5.9; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

Published 2001-06-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.