CVE-2002-0816: Compaq TRU64

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

Buffer overflow in su in Tru64 Unix 5.x allows local users to gain root privileges via a long username and argument.

Affected products

• Compaq TRU64: version 4.0f only; version 4.0g only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0a only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1a only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.