CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1041

Published: Aug 27, 1998 | 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

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openserver Sco 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Unix Sco 3.2v4 (including) 3.2v4 (including)

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