nis_cachemgr for Solaris NIS+ allows attackers to add malicious NIS+ servers.

DNS cache poisoning via BIND, by predictable query IDs.

Buffer overflow in SunOS/Solaris ps command.

ping in Solaris 2.3 through 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ping request to a multicast address through the loopback interface, e.g. via ping -i.

Command execution in Sun systems via buffer overflow in the at program.

Solaris rpcbind listens on a high numbered UDP port, which may not be filtered since the standard port number is 111.

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket.

Buffer overflow in (1) pluggable authentication module (PAM) on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.5 and (2) unix_scheme in Solaris 2.4 and 2.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via programs that use these modules such as passwd, yppasswd, and nispasswd.

Buffer overflow in Xt library of X Windowing System allows local users to execute commands with root privileges.

Buffer overflow in xlock program allows local users to execute commands as root.