CVE-2005-2072: Sun Solaris

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The runtime linker (ld.so) in Solaris 8, 9, and 10 trusts the LD_AUDIT environment variable in setuid or setgid programs, which allows local users to gain privileges by (1) modifying LD_AUDIT to reference malicious code and possibly (2) using a long value for LD_AUDIT.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.8 only

Published 2005-06-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.