CVE-1999-1139

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

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

1997-09-01 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:01:00

Affected Software

HP-UX family of operating systems

References

19970901 HP UX Bug :)

19980121 HP-UX CUE, CUD and LAND vulnerabilities

Patch, Vendor Advisory

I-027B

HPSBUX9801-074

Patch, Vendor Advisory

hp-cue(2007)

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