Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a large number of arguments through services such as telnet and rlogin.

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop program allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a long domain name when snoop is running in verbose mode.

Buffer overflow in Solaris snoop allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via GETQUOTA requests to the rpc.rquotad service.

Buffer overflow in Solaris sadmind allows remote attackers to gain root privileges using a NETMGTPROCSERVICE request.

Buffer overflow in CDE Calendar Manager Service Daemon (rpc.cmsd).

The prescan() function in the address parser (parseaddr.c) in Sendmail before 8.12.9 does not properly handle certain conversions from char and int types, which can cause a length check to be disabled when Sendmail misinterprets an input value as a special "NOCHAR" control value, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack using messages, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1337.

Guessable magic cookies in X Windows allows remote attackers to execute commands, e.g. through xterm.

Automount daemon automountd allows local or remote users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters.

Buffer overflow in statd allows root privileges.

Buffer overflow of rlogin program using TERM environmental variable.

The AIX FTP client can be forced to execute commands from a malicious server through shell metacharacters (e.g. a pipe character).

Inverse query buffer overflow in BIND 4.9 and BIND 8 Releases.

Buffer overflow in nlpsserver in Sun Solaris x86 2.4, 2.5, and 2.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via a long string beginning with "NLPS:002:002:" to the listen (aka System V listener) port, TCP port 2766.

SunOS rpc.cmsd allows attackers to obtain root access by overwriting arbitrary files.