Vulnerability in Slackware Linux

CVE-1999-1095

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

EPSS: 0.003 (27.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 3.3
Redhat Linux — versions 4.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)