Vulnerability CVE-1999-1182
Published: 1997-07-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Buffer overflow in run-time linkers (1) ld.so or (2) ld-linux.so for Linux systems allows local users to gain privileges by calling a setuid program with a long program name (argv[0]) and forcing ld.so/ld-linux.so to report an error.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
SUSE -> Suse linux 
Redhat -> Linux 
LST -> Lst power linux 
Delix -> DLD 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Caldera -> Openlinux lite 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602661419318&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602661419351&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88661732807795&w=2
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