{"document":{"acknowledgments":[{"urls":["https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/635811#acknowledgements"]}],"category":"CERT/CC Vulnerability Note","csaf_version":"2.0","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"Sun's NFS/RPC cachefs daemon (cachefsd) is shipped and installed by default with Sun Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, and 8 (SPARC and Intel architectures). Cachefsd caches requests for operations on remote file systems mounted via the use of NFS protocol. A remotely exploitable heap overflow exists in cachefsd that could permit a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the cachefsd, typically root.","title":"Summary"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' BASIS AND DOES NOT IMPLY ANY KIND OF GUARANTEE OR WARRANTY, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE. YOUR USE OF THE INFORMATION ON THE DOCUMENT OR MATERIALS LINKED FROM THE DOCUMENT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. ","title":"Legal Disclaimer"},{"category":"other","text":"CERT/CC Vulnerability Note is a limited advisory. It primarily identifies vendors impacted by the advisory and not specific products. We only support \"known_affected\" and \"known_not_affected\" status. Please consult the vendor's statements and advisory URL if provided by the vendor for more details ","title":"Limitations of Advisory"}],"publisher":{"category":"coordinator","contact_details":"Email: cert@cert.org, Phone: +1412 268 5800","issuing_authority":"CERT/CC under DHS/CISA https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity also see https://kb.cert.org/ ","name":"CERT/CC","namespace":"https://kb.cert.org/"},"references":[{"url":"https://certcc.github.io/certcc_disclosure_policy","summary":"CERT/CC vulnerability disclosure policy"},{"summary":"CERT/CC document released","category":"self","url":"https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/635811"}],"title":"Sun Solaris cachefsd vulnerable to heap overflow in cfsd_calloc() function via long string of characters","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2002-05-14T13:58:02+00:00","generator":{"engine":{"name":"VINCE","version":"3.0.35"}},"id":"VU#635811","initial_release_date":"2002-05-05 00:00:00+00:00","revision_history":[{"date":"2002-05-14T13:58:02+00:00","number":"1.20020514135802.31","summary":"Released on 2002-05-14T13:58:02+00:00"}],"status":"final","version":"1.20020514135802.31"}},"vulnerabilities":[{"notes":[{"category":"general","text":"No vulnerabilities have been defined at this time for this report"}]}]}