CVE-1999-1095

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 27 years ago

1997-10-06 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:01:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 4.1

4.1

References

19971006 KSR[T] Advisory #3: updatedb / crontabs

19980302 overwrite any file with updatedb

19980303 updatedb stuff

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