CVE-1999-0138
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
1999-09-29 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 16:27
Severity ?
Summary
The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138
Impacted products
n/an/a
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