CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1041

7.2 HIGH Published 1998-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-08-27
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

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 configurations

• sco openserver 5.0 • sco unix 3.2v4

References