Published: 18/10/2001 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 1000

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in rpc.yppasswdd (yppasswd server) in Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8 allows remote malicious users to gain root access via a long username.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/2763/info The rpcyppasswdd server is used to handle password change requests from yppasswd and modify the NIS password file A buffer overrun vulnerability has been discovered in the rpcyppasswdd utility distributed by multiple vendors The problem occurs due to insufficient bounds checking before copyin ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/187086 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2763 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/327281 http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/209 http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/m-008.shtml https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A56 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A102 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/6629 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/200110041632.JAA28125%40dim.ucsd.edu https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20879/https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/327281

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