CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1490

Published: May 28, 1998 | 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

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux Redhat 5.1 (including) 5.1 (including)

References