CVE-1999-1041

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1998-08-27 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1041, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1041

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C