CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1158

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-05-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-05-13
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 (1) pluggable authentication module (PAM) on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.5 and (2) unix_scheme in Solaris 2.4 and 2.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via programs that use these modules such as passwd, yppasswd, and nispasswd.

Affected configurations

• sun sunos 5.3 • sun sunos 5.4 • sun sunos 5.5 • sun sunos 5.5.1

References