CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1091

Published: Jan 15, 2002 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Rtin Rtin * *
Tin Tin 1.2 (including) 1.2 (including)

References