CVE-1999-0979: Sco Unixware

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SCO UnixWare privileged process system allows local users to gain root privileges by using a debugger such as gdb to insert traps into _init before the privileged process is executed.

Affected products

• Sco Unixware: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only

Published 2000-04-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.