CVE-2002-1586: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Solaris 2.5.1 through 9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by setting the sd_struiowrq variable in the struioget function to null, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2002-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.