CVE-2001-0595: Sun Sunos

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

Buffer overflow in the kcsSUNWIOsolf.so library in Solaris 7 and 8 allows local attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the KCMS_PROFILES environment variable, e.g. as demonstrated using the kcms_configure program.

Affected products

• Sun Sunos: version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2001-08-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.