CVE-2005-4797: Sun Solaris

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 29.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in printd line printer daemon (lpd) in Solaris 7 through 10 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via ".." sequences in an "Unlink data file" command.

Affected products

• Sun Solaris: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Sun Sunos: version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.