CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1173

Published: Dec 18, 1998 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1173
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Corel Word Perfect 8 for Linux creates a temporary working directory with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to (1) modify Word Perfect behavior by modifying files in the working directory, or (2) modify files of other users via a symlink attack.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Wordperfect	Corel	8 (including)	8 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=91404045014047\u0026w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=91404045014047\u0026w=2

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