CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1102
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1999-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
lpr on SunOS 4.1.1, BSD 4.3, A/UX 2.0.1, and other BSD-based operating systems allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that is triggered after invoking lpr 1000 times.
Affected configurations
• sgi irix (<= 5.2)
• apple a ux 2.0.1
• bsd bsd 4.3
• sun sunos (<= 4.1.1)
References
- http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/e-25.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.aenigma.net/resources/maillist/bugtraq/1994/0091.htm www.aenigma.net
- http://www.phreak.org/archives/security/8lgm/8lgm.lpr Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/e-25.shtml Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.aenigma.net/resources/maillist/bugtraq/1994/0091.htm www.aenigma.net
- http://www.phreak.org/archives/security/8lgm/8lgm.lpr Exploit, Vendor Advisory