CVE-1999-1041: Sco Openserver

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in mscreen on SCO OpenServer 5.0 and SCO UNIX 3.2v4 allows a local user to gain root access via (1) a long TERM environmental variable and (2) a long entry in the .mscreenrc file.

Affected products

• Sco Openserver: version 5.0 only
• Sco Unix: version 3.2v4 only

Published 1998-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.