CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1438
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1991-02-22
- 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
Vulnerability in /bin/mail in SunOS 4.1.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via certain command line arguments.
Affected configurations
• sun sunos (<= 4.1.1)
• sun sunos 4.0.3
• sun sunos 4.1
References
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/105 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-91.01a.SunOS.mail.vulnerability Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15 www.securityfocus.com
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/105 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-91.01a.SunOS.mail.vulnerability Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15 www.securityfocus.com