Description
Local user gains root privileges via buffer overflow in rdist, via expstr() function.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_sun
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/179
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0019
EPSS Percentile
40.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (37)
bsdi/bsd_os
1.1
freebsd/freebsd
2.0
freebsd/freebsd
2.0.5
freebsd/freebsd
2.1.0
hp/hp-ux
10.00
ibm/aix
3.1
ibm/aix
3.2
ibm/aix
3.2.4
ibm/aix
3.2.5
ibm/aix
4.1
... and 27 more
Published
Jul 03, 1996
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026