Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1142

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2002-03-09 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:02:53
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user.