CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1191

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-05-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-05-19
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 chkey in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Affected configurations

• sun solaris 2.4 • sun solaris 2.5 • sun solaris 2.5.1 • sun sunos (<= 5.5.1) • sun sunos 5.4 • sun sunos 5.5

References