CVE-2002-0677: Caldera Openunix

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CDE ToolTalk database server (ttdbserver) allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary memory locations with a zero, and possibly gain privileges, via a file descriptor argument in an AUTH_UNIX procedure call, which is used as a table index by the _TT_ISCLOSE procedure.

Affected products

• Caldera Openunix: version 8.0 only
• Caldera Unixware: version 7 only; version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1_.0 only
• Compaq TRU64: version 4.0f only; version 4.0g only; version 5.0a only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1a only
• HP HP-Ux: version 10.10 only; version 10.20 only; version 10.24 only; version 11.00 only; version 11.11 only
• IBM Aix: version 4.3.3 only; version 5.1 only
• Sgi Irix: version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only
• XI Graphics Dextop: version 2.1 only

Published 2002-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.