CVE-2003-1055: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the nss_ldap.so.1 library for Sun Solaris 8 and 9 may allow local users to gain root access via a long hostname in an LDAP lookup.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2003-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.