CVE-2001-0422: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Xsun 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: version 5.3 only; version 5.4 only; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2001-07-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.