CVE-2006-0177: Cray Unicos

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

Multiple buffer overflows in Cray UNICOS 9.0.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by (1) invoking /usr/bin/script with a long command line argument or (2) setting the -c option of /etc/nu to the name of a file containing a long line.

Affected products

• Cray Unicos: version 9.0.2.2 only

Published 2006-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.