Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4

Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4

CVE-1999-1041 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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