CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1210

Published: Nov 12, 1997 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1210
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B with patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Unix	Digital	4.0b (including)	4.0b (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=87936891504885\u0026w=2
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/613

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