CVE-1999-1187

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 28 years ago

1996-08-26 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 2.1.0

2.1.0

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