CVE-1999-1102

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

lpr on SunOS 4.1.1, BSD 4.3, A/UX 2.0.1, and other BSD-based operating systems allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that is triggered after invoking lpr 1000 times.

lpr on SunOS 4.1.1, BSD 4.3, A/UX 2.0.1, and other BSD-based operating systems allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that is triggered after invoking lpr 1000 times.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:18:00

Affected Software

SGI IRAX

IBM A_UX 2.0.1

2.0.1

Sun SunOS (formerly Solaris)

References

E-25a

Patch, Vendor Advisory

19940307 8lgm Advisory Releases

http://www.phreak.org/archives/security/8lgm/8lgm.lpr

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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