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

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0979
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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	7.0
Unixware	Sco	7.0.1	7.0.1
Unixware	Sco	7.1	7.1
Unixware	Sco	7.1.1	7.1.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=94530783815434\u0026w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/869

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