CVE-1999-1142 (GCVE-0-1999-1142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-09 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:02
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?docty… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUN
Date Public
1992-05-27 00:00
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