CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0979

Published: Apr 11, 2000 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The SCO UnixWare privileged process system allows local users to gain root privileges by using a debugger such as gdb to insert traps into _init before the privileged process is executed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Unixware Sco 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Unixware Sco 7.0.1 (including) 7.0.1 (including)
Unixware Sco 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Unixware Sco 7.1.1 (including) 7.1.1 (including)

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