Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1191 - Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Solaris and Sunos

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

COMPLETE

Integrity impact

COMPLETE

Availability impact

COMPLETE

local

low complexity

exploit available

NVD

Published: 1997-05-19

Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

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

Part	Description	Count
OS	Sun SUN Solaris 2.4 SUN Solaris 2.5 SUN Solaris 2.5.1 SUN Sunos 5.4 SUN Sunos 5.5 SUN Sunos - SUN Sunos 3.5 SUN Sunos 4.0 SUN Sunos 4.0.1 SUN Sunos 4.0.2 SUN Sunos 4.0.3 SUN Sunos 4.0.3C SUN Sunos 4.1 SUN Sunos 4.1.1 SUN Sunos 4.1.2 SUN Sunos 4.1.3 SUN Sunos 4.1.3C SUN Sunos 4.1.3U1 SUN Sunos 4.1.4 SUN Sunos 4.1Psr_A SUN Sunos 5.0 SUN Sunos 5.1 SUN Sunos 5.2 SUN Sunos 5.3 SUN Sunos 5.5.1	25

description	Solaris 2.5.0/2.5.1 ps & chkey Data Buffer Exploit. CVE-1999-1191. Local exploit for solaris platform
id	EDB-ID:332
last seen	2016-01-31
modified	1997-05-19
published	1997-05-19
reporter	Joe Zbiciak
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/332/
title	Solaris 2.5.0/2.5.1 ps & chkey Data Buffer Exploit

description	Solaris 2.5.1 chkey Vulnerability. CVE-1999-1191. Local exploit for solaris platform
id	EDB-ID:19160
last seen	2016-02-02
modified	1997-05-19
published	1997-05-19
reporter	Adam Morrison
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19160/
title	Solaris <= 2.5.1 chkey Vulnerability