CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1095

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-10-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-10-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 4.1 • slackware slackware linux 3.3

References