CVE-2002-0084
Buffer overflow in the fscache_setup function of cachefsd in Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long mount argument.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 20.7%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Buffer overflow in the fscache_setup function of cachefsd in Solaris 2.6, 7, and 8 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long mount argument.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 20.72% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- sun/solaris · sun/sunos
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 20.7% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/04/msg00416.html
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F44309
- http://www.esecurityonline.com/advisories/eSO4198.aspPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/161931US Government Resource
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A43
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A97
- http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/04/msg00416.html
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert%2F44309
- http://www.esecurityonline.com/advisories/eSO4198.aspPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/161931US Government Resource
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A43
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A97
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.