CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1142

7.2 HIGH Published 1992-05-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1992-05-27
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

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.

Affected configurations

• sun sunos (<= 4.1.2)

References