Vulnerability in Apple A_ux
CVE-1999-0138
The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.
EPSS: 0.007 (48.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple A_ux — versions 3.1.1
- Digital Osf_1 — versions 1.3
- Freebsd — versions 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0
- Hp Hp-ux — versions 8, 9, 10
- Ibm Aix — versions 3.2.5, 4
- Linux Linux_kernel — versions 1.2.0, 2.0
- Nec Asl_ux_4800
- Nec Ews-ux_v — versions 4.2, 4.2mp
- Nec Up-ux_v — versions 4.2mp
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)