CVE-2002-0089: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in admintool in Solaris 2.5 through 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via long arguments to (1) the -d command line option, or (2) the PRODVERS argument in the .cdtoc file.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.5 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only

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