CVE-2002-2197: Sun Solaris

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

Unknown vulnerability in Sun Solaris 8.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a program that uses /dev/poll, triggering a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.