CVE-1999-1142
N/A
Published: March 9, 2002 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:49 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorSunos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (3)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUN
Source: [email protected]
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTPatchUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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