Vulnerability in Sun Solaris

CVE-1999-1191

Buffer overflow in chkey in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

EPSS: 0.019 (78.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Sun Solaris — versions 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1
Sun Sunos — versions 5.4, 5.5
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Patch, x_refsource_SUN, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)