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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2003-0609 json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the runtime linker, ld.so.1, on Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long…

published 2003-08-01 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2003-0603

cvss
7.2
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the runtime linker, ld.so.1, on Solaris 2.6 through 9 allows local users to gain root privileges via a long LD_PRELOAD environment variable.

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-114)

Exploit prediction

3.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-1182 Solaris 2.6/7/8/9 (SPARC) - 'ld.so.1' Local Privilege Escalation local, 2004-12-24
  • EDB-114 Solaris Runtime Linker (SPARC) - 'ld.so.1' Local Buffer Overflow local, 2003-10-27

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.