CVE-1999-1138

The CVE affects SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 and other SCO products. Its description states that home directories are created under /tmp (dos user) and /usr/tmp (asg user), which are world-writable, enabling other users to access those accounts. The underlying issue is the use of world-writa...

CVE-1999-1138: Undefined Security Weakness

SCO UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2, and other SCO products, installs the home directories 1 /tmp for the dos user, and 2 /usr/tmp for the asg user, which allows other users to gain access to those accounts since /tmp and /usr/tmp are world-writable...