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Tracker / CVE-1999-0138

CVE-1999-0138

High 7.2

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

Affected products and versions

apple a_ux
digital osf_1
freebsd freebsd
hp hp-ux
ibm aix
linux linux_kernel
nec asl_ux_4800
nec ews-ux_v
nec up-ux_v

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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