CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0298

Published: Feb 05, 1997 | Modified: Sep 09, 2008

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0298
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

ypbind with -ypset and -ypsetme options activated in Linux Slackware and SunOS allows local and remote attackers to overwrite files via a .. (dot dot) attack.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Slackware_linux	Slackware	2.1	2.1
Slackware_linux	Slackware	2.2	2.2
Slackware_linux	Slackware	2.3	2.3
Sunos	Sun	4.1.3	4.1.3
Sunos	Sun	4.1.4	4.1.4

References

http://www.nai.com/nai_labs/asp_set/advisory/06_ypbindsetme_adv.asp

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