CVE-1999-1491

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

abuse.console in Red Hat 2.1 uses relative pathnames to find and execute the undrv program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a path that points to a Trojan horse program.

abuse.console in Red Hat 2.1 uses relative pathnames to find and execute the undrv program, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands via a path that points to a Trojan horse 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

First reported 29 years ago

1996-02-02 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:04:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 2.1

2.1

References

19960202 abuse Red Hat 2.1 security hole

354

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