Vulnerability in Sun Sunos

CVE-1999-1142

SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUN)