CVE-2002-0084: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 20.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the fscache_setup function of cachefsd in Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long mount argument.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.7 only

Published 2002-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.