EDB-19160

functional

Solaris 2.5.1 - 'chkey' Local Privilege Escalation

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Adam Morrisonpublished 1997-05-19catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-1999-1191US	high7.2	1.94% (80th)	Exploit	1997-05-19
Buffer overflow in chkey in Solaris 2.5.1 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges via a long command line argument.

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