Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0885

Title: in.rarpd buffer overflow RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0885.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 04, 2002

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.25%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0885: Multiple buffer overflows in in.rarpd (ARP server) on Solaris, and possibly other operating systems including Caldera UnixWare and Open UNIX, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly via the functions (1) syserr and (2) error.

Impacted Vendors

novell 1

caldera 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/updates/OpenUNIX/CSSA-2002-SCO.29/CSSA-2002-SCO.29.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0074.html http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/273584 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9150.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4791 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/updates/OpenUNIX/CSSA-2002-SCO.29/CSSA-2002-SCO.29.txt http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2002-q2/0074.html http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/273584 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9150.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4791

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0885 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 04, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.