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FKIE_CVE-1999-0138

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 1996-06-26 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:47

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

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/CVE-1999-0138

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
apple	a_ux	3.1.1
digital	osf_1	1.3
freebsd	freebsd	2.0
freebsd	freebsd	2.0.5
freebsd	freebsd	2.1.0
hp	hp-ux	8
hp	hp-ux	9
hp	hp-ux	10
ibm	aix	3.2.5
ibm	aix	4
linux	linux_kernel	1.2.0
linux	linux_kernel	2.0
nec	asl_ux_4800	*
nec	ews-ux_v	4.2
nec	ews-ux_v	4.2mp
nec	up-ux_v	4.2mp

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CVE-1999-0138 (GCVE-0-1999-0138)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 1999-09-29 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:27

Summary

The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	x_refsource_MISC

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