CVE-2003-1071: Sun Solaris

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rpc.walld (wall daemon) for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to send messages to logged on users that appear to come from arbitrary user IDs by closing stderr before executing wall, then supplying a spoofed from header.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2003-01-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.