7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0866

Published: 03/12/1999 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Buffer overflow in UnixWare xauto program allows local users to gain root privilege.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/848/info Certain versions of SCO's UnixWare ship with a version of /usr/X/bin/xauto which is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack which may result in an attacker gaining root privileges This is exploitable to gain root privileges even though /usr/X/bin/xauto is not setuid root This is due to a system d ...