Security Advisory

CVE-1999-0979

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2000-01-04 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 16:55:29
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The SCO UnixWare privileged process system allows local users to gain root privileges by using a debugger such as gdb to insert traps into _init before the privileged process is executed.