Vulnerability in Sco Unixware

CVE-1999-0979

The SCO UnixWare privileged process system allows local users to gain root privileges by using a debugger such as gdb to insert traps into _init before the privileged process is executed.

EPSS: 0.007 (48.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Sco Unixware — versions 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References