CVE-1999-1371

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1999-03-08 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1371, 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 /usr/bin/write in Solaris 2.6 and 7 allows local users to gain privileges via a long string in the terminal name argument.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1371

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