CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0979

7.2 HIGH Published 2000-04-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-04-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

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 configurations

• sco unixware 7.0 • sco unixware 7.0.1 • sco unixware 7.1 • sco unixware 7.1.1

References