CVE-2002-1587: Sun Solaris

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

The libthread library (libthread.so.1) for Solaris 2.5.1 through 8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) of an application that uses libthread by causing the application to wait for a certain mutex.

Affected products

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

Published 2002-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.