Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1371 - Unspecified vulnerability in SUN Sunos 5.5.1/5.7

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
sun
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1999-03-08
Updated: 2018-10-30

Summary

Buffer overflow in /usr/bin/write in Solaris 2.6 and 7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long string in the terminal name argument.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sun
3

Exploit-Db

descriptionSolaris 2.6 / 2.7 /usr/bin/write Local Overflow Exploit. CVE-1999-1371. Local exploit for solaris platform
idEDB-ID:256
last seen2016-01-31
modified2001-01-25
published2001-01-25
reporterPablo Sor
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/256/
titleSolaris 2.6 / 2.7 /usr/bin/write Local Overflow Exploit

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