CVE-1999-1398

Severity

62%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

165%

Vulnerability in xfsdump in SGI IRIX may allow local users to obtain root privileges via the bck.log log file, possibly via a symlink attack.

Vulnerability in xfsdump in SGI IRIX may allow local users to obtain root privileges via the bck.log log file, possibly via a symlink attack.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

SGI IRIX

First reported 27 years ago

1997-05-07 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:04:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 5.0.1

5.0.1

SGI IRIX 5.1

5.1

SGI IRIX 5.1.1

5.1.1

SGI IRIX 5.2

5.2

SGI IRIX 5.3

5.3

SGI IRIX 5.3 XFS

5.3

SGI IRIX 6.0

6.0

SGI IRIX 6.0.1

6.0.1

SGI IRIX 6.0.1 XFS

6.0.1

SGI IRIX 6.1

6.1

SGI IRIX 6.2

6.2

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

SGI IRIX 6.4

6.4

References

19970507 Irix: misc

http://www.insecure.org/sploits/irix.xfsdump.html

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