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Open Unix is the commercially available Unix derivative available from Caldera International. It was originally UnixWare avaiable from Santa Cruz Operations. A buffer overflow in uidadmin has been discovered. The -S option does not correctly handle long arguments, resulting in a buffer overflow. A local user may exploit this vulnerability to gain root access.

Open Unix is the commercially available Unix derivative available from Caldera International. It was originally UnixWare avaiable from Santa Cruz Operations. A buffer overflow in uidadmin has been discovered. The -S option does not correctly handle long arguments, resulting in a buffer overflow. A local user may exploit this vulnerability to gain root access.