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CVE-1999-1142

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1992-05-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• Sunos: through 4.1.2

References

• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doctype=coll&doc=secbull/116
• http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1992-11.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/3152

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