Vulnerability in Hp Hp-Ux

CVE-1999-1139

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

EPSS: 0.005 (39.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_HP, URL Repurposed, vendor-advisory, Patch)
  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Patch)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
  • cve@mitre.org (government-resource, third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CIAC)