CVE-1999-1490

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1 allows local users to gain root access via a long HOME environmental variable.

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

1998-05-28 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:04:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.1

5.1

References

19980528 ALERT: Tiresome security hole in "xosview", RedHat5.1?

19980529 Re: Tiresome security hole in "xosview" (xosexp.c)

linux-xosview-bo(8787)

362

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