Vulnerability in Slackware Linux
CVE-1999-1422
The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . (dot, the current directory) in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users.
EPSS: 0.003 (25.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 2.0.35, 3.4
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)