CVE-1999-1041

N/A

Description

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/27/1998

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

sco:openserversco:unix

References

ftp://ftp.sco.com/SSE/security_bulletins/SB-98.05a(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90686250717719&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.cert.org/vendor_bulletins/VB-98.10.sco.mscreen(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10420(cve@mitre.org)

ftp://ftp.sco.com/SSE/security_bulletins/SB-98.05a(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90686250717719&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.cert.org/vendor_bulletins/VB-98.10.sco.mscreen(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10420(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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