Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to handling of…

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Sun Solaris 8 through 10 allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to handling of tags with (1) the -t option and (2) the :tag command in the (a) vi, (b) ex, (c) vedit, (d) view, and (e) edit programs.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 31895 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1020898 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• solaris-tagfiles-code-execution(45218) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 31229 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-2614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 237987 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5884 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-387.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 31907 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• 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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:08 UTC.