CVE-2001-0686: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in mail included with SunOS 5.8 for x86 allows a local user to gain privileges via a long HOME environment variable.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 5.8 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2001-09-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.