CVE-2002-1296: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in priocntl system call in Solaris does allows local users to execute arbitrary code via ".." sequences in the pc_clname field of a pcinfo_t structure, which cause priocntl to load a malicious kernel module.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2002-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.