CVE-1999-1461

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

inpview in InPerson on IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ttsession program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse ttsession program.

inpview in InPerson on IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ttsession program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse ttsession program.

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

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 5.3

5.3

SGI IRIX 6.1

6.1

SGI IRIX 6.2

6.2

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

SGI IRIX 6.4

6.4

SGI IRIX 6.5.10

6.5.10

References

20001101-01-I

Patch, Vendor Advisory

19970507 Irix: misc

381

Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory

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