CVE-2003-0575: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the name services daemon (nsd) in SGI IRIX 6.5.x through 6.5.21f, and possibly earlier versions, allows attackers to gain root privileges via the AUTH_UNIX gid list.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.