CVE-2003-1067: Sun Solaris

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

Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) dbm_open function, as used in ndbm and dbm, and the (2) dbminit function in Solaris 2.6 through 9 allow local users to gain root privileges via long arguments to Xsun or other programs that use these functions.

Affected products

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

Published 2003-06-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.