Vulnerability in Digital Unix
CVE-1999-1210
xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm…
EPSS: 0.003 (24.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Digital Unix — versions 4.0b
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)