Unscored CVE-1999-1021 EUVD-1999-1002GHSA-5xf6-9pfj-rr6g

NFS on SunOS 4.1 through 4.1.2 ignores the high order 16 bits in a 32 bit UID, which allows a local user to gain root access if the lower 1…

Published Mar 9, 2002 · Updated Aug 1, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

NFS on SunOS 4.1 through 4.1.2 ignores the high order 16 bits in a 32 bit UID, which allows a local user to gain root access if the lower 16 bits are set to 0, as fixed by the NFS jumbo patch upgrade.

References

CA-1992-15 third-party-advisory
00117 vendor-advisory
47 vdb-entry
nfs-uid(82) vdb-entry