Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1041 - Unspecified vulnerability in SCO Openserver and Unix

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
sco
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1998-08-27
Updated: 2016-10-18

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sco
2

Exploit-Db

descriptionSCO OpenServer 5.0.5 Env Local Stack Overflow Exploit. CVE-1999-1041,CVE-1999-1185. Local exploit for sco platform
idEDB-ID:261
last seen2016-01-31
modified2001-01-26
published2001-01-26
reporterK2
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/261/
titleSCO OpenServer 5.0.5 Env Local Stack Overflow Exploit

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