CVE-1999-1413

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1996-08-03 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1413, 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

Solaris 2.4 before kernel jumbo patch -35 allows set-gid programs to dump core even if the real user id is not in the set-gid group, which allows local users to overwrite or create files at higher privileges by causing a core dump, e.g. through dmesg.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1413

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