CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1498

Published: Apr 06, 1998 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

3.6 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1498
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Slackware_linux	Slackware	3.4 (including)	3.4 (including)

References

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