CVE-1999-1089

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in chfn command in HP-UX 9.X through 10.20 allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

Buffer overflow in chfn command in HP-UX 9.X through 10.20 allows local users to gain privileges via a long command line argument.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

HP

First reported 28 years ago

1996-12-13 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

HP HP-UX 9

9

HP HP-UX 10

10

HP-UX family of operating systems

References

H-16

Patch, Vendor Advisory

H-21

Patch, Vendor Advisory

19961209 the HP Bug of the Week!

hp-chfn(2008)

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