CVE-1999-1142: Sun Sunos

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SunOS 4.1.2 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via "LD_*" environmental variables to certain dynamically linked setuid or setgid programs such as (1) login, (2) su, or (3) sendmail, that change the real and effective user ids to the same user.

Affected products

• Sun Sunos: up to and including 4.1.2

Published 1992-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.