CVE-1999-1501

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

(1) ipxchk and (2) ipxlink in SGI OS2 IRIX 6.3 does not properly clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

(1) ipxchk and (2) ipxlink in SGI OS2 IRIX 6.3 does not properly clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-04-08 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:05:00

Affected Software

SGI IRIX 6.3

6.3

References

19980408 SGI O2 ipx security issue

70

Patch, Vendor Advisory

71

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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