CVE-2005-0816: Sun Solaris

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

Buffer overflow in newgrp in Solaris 7 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.