Vulnerability in Sun Sunos

CVE-1999-1158

Buffer overflow in (1) pluggable authentication module (PAM) on Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.5 and (2) unix_scheme in Solaris 2.4 and 2.3 allows local users to gain root privileges via programs that use these modules such as passwd, yppasswd, and nispasswd.

EPSS: 0.008 (54.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Sun Sunos — versions 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

References

  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_SUN, Vendor Advisory)