CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1269

Published: Feb 06, 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-1999-1269
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Screen savers in KDE beta 3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the .kss.pid file.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Kde_beta_3	Kde	initial (including)	initial (including)

References

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