CVE-2001-1076: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in whodo in Solaris SunOS 5.5.1 through 5.8 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) SOR or (2) CFIME environment variable.

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: affected versions not specified; version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2001-07-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.