CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1399

Published: Aug 20, 1997 | Modified: Apr 16, 2026

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1399
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=87602746719552\u0026w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=87602746719552\u0026w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471

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