CVE-1999-1014

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in mail command in Solaris 2.7 and 2.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long -m argument.

Buffer overflow in mail command in Solaris 2.7 and 2.7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long -m argument.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-09-13 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:26:00

Affected Software

Sun Microsystems Solaris 7

5.7

References

19990913 Solaris 2.7 /usr/bin/mail

19990927 Working Solaris x86 /usr/bin/mail exploit

672

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

sun-usrbinmail-local-bo(3297)

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