CVE-1999-1495

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

xtvscreen in SuSE Linux 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pic000.pnm file.

xtvscreen in SuSE Linux 6.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the pic000.pnm file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1999-02-18 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

SuSE SuSE Linux 6.0

6.0

References

19990218 xtvscreen and suse 6

Exploit

325

Vendor Advisory

xtvscreen-overwrite(1792)

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