Vulnerability in Sgi Irix
CVE-1999-1399
spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.
EPSS: 0.009 (55.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sgi Irix — versions 6.2
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)