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CVE-1999-1041

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sco Openserver: 5.0
• Sco Unix: 3.2v4

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90686250717719&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/vendor_bulletins/VB-98.10.sco.mscreen
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10420
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90686250717719&w=2
• http://www.cert.org/vendor_bulletins/VB-98.10.sco.mscreen
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/10420

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