Vulnerability in Sco Openserver

CVE-1999-1041

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

EPSS: 0.011 (59.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sco Openserver — versions 5.0
Sco Unix — versions 3.2v4
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)