CVE-2009-3183: Sun Opensolaris

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

Heap-based buffer overflow in w in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_124, allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_01 only; version snv_02 only; version snv_03 only; version snv_04 only; version snv_05 only; version snv_06 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only

Published 2009-09-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.