CVE-1999-1022

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program.

serial_ports administrative program in IRIX 4.x and 5.x trusts the user's PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ls program, which allows local users to gain root privileges via a Trojan horse ls program.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SGI IRIX

First reported 30 years ago

1994-10-02 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 5.2

5.2

SGI IRIX 5.3

5.3

References

19941002

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

464

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

sgi-serialports(2111)

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