CVE-2001-0526: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the Xview library as used by mailtool in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain privileges via the OPENWINHOME environment variable.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only

Published 2001-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.