CVE-2001-1582: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the LDAP naming services library (libsldap) in Sun Solaris 8 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long LDAP_OPTIONS environment variable to a privileged program that uses libsldap.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2001-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.