CVE-2001-0470

CVE-2001-0470 describes a buffer overflow in the Solaris 8 SNMP proxy agent snmpd triggered by a long argv[0], allowing local users to gain root privileges. The issue is component-level: the vulnerable code path is within snmpd’s handling of the process name. Reported impact is local privilege es...

CVE-2001-0470

Buffer overflow in SNMP proxy agent snmpd in Solaris 8 may allow local users to gain root privileges by calling snmpd with a long program name...