Vulnerability in Cray Unicos

CVE-1999-1468

rdist in various UNIX systems uses popen to execute sendmail, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable.

EPSS: 0.003 (26.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Cray Unicos — versions 6.0, 6.0e, 6.1
  • Next — versions 2.0, 2.1
  • Sgi Irix — versions 3.3, 3.3.1, 3.3.2
  • Sun Sunos — versions 4.0.3, 4.0.3c, 4.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References