CVE-2002-0573: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Format string vulnerability in RPC wall daemon (rpc.rwalld) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in a message that is not properly provided to the syslog function when the wall command cannot be executed.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2002-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.