CVE-2001-0426 — Buffer overflow in dtsession on Solaris, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via a long LANG environmental variable

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HIGH

Buffer overflow in dtsession on Solaris, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via a long LANG environmental variable

Published May 24, 2001

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.87%

Description

Buffer overflow in dtsession on Solaris, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via a long LANG environmental variable.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.87% 0.00873

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00873

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.87% (0.00873)	57.42th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.87% (0.00873)	54.03th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00126)	29.34th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	0.34th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	0.50th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.76% (0.01761)	76.53th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.76% (0.01761)	76.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.76% (0.01761)	74.44th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.76% (0.01761)	53.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (1)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0203.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-04/0203.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 24, 2001

Updated Aug 8, 2024

Reserved May 24, 2001

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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