IBM AIX 3.2.5 - 'IFS' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/454/info Under older versions of AIX By changing the IFS enviroment variable to / setuid root programs that use system or popen can be fooled into running user provided programs. !/bin/csh IFS hole in AIX3.2 rmail gives egid=mail. Apr. 1994 Setup needed...

CVE-1999-1142

SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as 1 login, 2 su, or 3 sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user...

SunOS 4.1.3 - LD_LIBRARY_PATH / LD_OPTIONS

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43/info There exists a vulnerability involving environment variables and setuid/setgid programs under SunOS 4.0 and higher. A dynamically-linked program that is invoked by a setuid/setgid program has access to the caller's LD environmental variables if th...

CVE-1999-1123

The installation of Sun Source sunsrc tapes allows local users to gain root privileges via setuid root programs 1 makeinstall or 2 winstall...