CVE-2001-0565: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in mailx in Solaris 8 and earlier allows a local attacker to gain additional privileges via a long '-F' command line option.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.5 only; version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: up to and including 5.9; affected versions not specified; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

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