7.2
CWE
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Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-1999-0138

First published: Wed Jun 26 1996(Updated: )

The suidperl and sperl program do not give up root privileges when changing UIDs back to the original users, allowing root access.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Apple A Ux=3.1.1
Digital Osf 1=1.3
FreeBSD FreeBSD=2.0
FreeBSD FreeBSD=2.0.5
FreeBSD FreeBSD=2.1.0
HP HP-UX=8
HP HP-UX=9
HP HP-UX=10
IBM AIX=3.2.5
IBM AIX=4
Linux Linux kernel=1.2.0
Linux Linux kernel=2.0
Nec Asl Ux 4800
Nec Ews-ux V=4.2
Nec Ews-ux V=4.2mp
Nec Up-ux V=4.2mp

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