CVE-1999-1402

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 1997-05-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The access permissions for a UNIX domain socket are ignored in Solaris 2.x and SunOS 4.x, and other BSD-based operating systems before 4.4, which could allow local users to connect to the socket and possibly disrupt or control the operations of the program using that socket.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.8 (+2)
Sun Solaris: 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6
Sunos: 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, 5.5.1

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167418317&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602248718482&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7172.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167418317&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602248718482&w=2
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7172.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/456

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