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CVE-2003-1066
Buffer overflow in the syslog daemon for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (syslogd crash) and…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.3%
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the syslog daemon for Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (syslogd crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long syslog UDP packets.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 12% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 55440 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- sun-syslogd-bo(12194) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20030604 Solaris syslogd overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 8944 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 7820 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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