CVE Catalog

CVE-1999-1191

High
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

High risk
1.94%

77th percentile - higher than 77% of all known CVEs

Summary

Buffer overflow in chkey in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Risk Assessment

Local users can exploit this vulnerability to gain full administrative privileges, posing a serious security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade Solaris to a newer version that is not vulnerable to this issue.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in chkey in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS