CVE-1999-1041

CVE-1999-1041 is a local privilege escalation affecting SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 through a buffer overflow in the mscreen program. The vulnerability can be triggered by processing an excessively long TERM environment variable and by an overly long entry in the .mscreenrc file, enabli...

CVE-1999-1041: Undefined Security Weakness

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...