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CVE-1999-1142

Published

31 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

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SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: High
Base Score: 7.2/10
Exploit Score: 3.9/10
Access Vector: Local
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 10/10
Confidentiality Impact: Complete
Availability Impact: Complete
Integrity Impact: Complete

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:o:sun:sunos::::::::	Yes	-	-

References

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152