CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1399

Published: Aug 20, 1997 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Irix Sgi 6.2 (including) 6.2 (including)

References