Vulnerability in Slackware Linux

CVE-1999-1498

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

EPSS: 0.009 (55.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 3.4
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)