CVE-1999-1114: Sgi Irix

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

Buffer overflow in Korn Shell (ksh) suid_exec program on IRIX 6.x and earlier, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; …

Published 1998-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.