CVE-1999-1183

Severity

76%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

165%

System Manager sysmgr GUI in SGI IRIX 6.4 and 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing a trojan horse (1) runtask or (2) runexec descriptor file, which is used to execute a System Manager Task when the user's Mailcap entry supports the x-sgi-task or x-sgi-exec type.

System Manager sysmgr GUI in SGI IRIX 6.4 and 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing a trojan horse (1) runtask or (2) runexec descriptor file, which is used to execute a System Manager Task when the user's Mailcap entry supports the x-sgi-task or x-sgi-exec type.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SGI IRIX

First reported 26 years ago

1998-04-02 05:00:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-08-21 04:05:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

SGI IRIX 6.4

6.4

References

19980403-01-PX

Patch, Vendor Advisory

19980403-02-PX

Patch, Vendor Advisory

sgi-mailcap(809)

8556

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