CVE-1999-0966

Summary

CVE-1999-0966 is a significant vulnerability affecting Solaris systems. The issue lies within the getopt function in the libc library and results in a buffer overflow. If a local user crafts a long argv[0] argument, they can exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges, posing a serious security risk. This vulnerability was discovered and documented in 1999. System administrators should apply the available patch to mitigate this issue and secure their Solaris installations.

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