CVE-2003-1082: Sun Solaris

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

Buffer overflow in utmp_update for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges, as identified by Sun BugID 4705891, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-1068.

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 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.