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CVE-2005-4797

Directory traversal vulnerability in printd line printer daemon (lpd) in Solaris 7 through 10 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via ".." sequences in an "Unlink data file" command.

Published: Dec 31, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (9)

Vendor Product Version
sun solaris 7.0
sun solaris 8.0
sun solaris 9.0
sun solaris 9.0
sun solaris 9.0
sun solaris 10.0
sun solaris 10.0
sun sunos 5.7
sun sunos 5.8

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-7cx8-j7qq-8w58

Directory traversal vulnerability in printd line printer daemon (lpd) in Solaris 7 through 10...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 5.0 / 10
EPSS Score 29.18%

Top 2% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 28.8 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub