CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1183
7.6 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1998-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.6 HIGH — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
System Manager sysmgr GUI in SGI IRIX 6.4 and 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing a trojan horse (1) runtask or (2) runexec descriptor file, which is used to execute a System Manager Task when the user's Mailcap entry supports the x-sgi-task or x-sgi-exec type.
Affected configurations
• sgi irix 6.3
• sgi irix 6.4
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980403-01-PX Patch, Vendor Advisory
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980403-02-PX Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/809.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/8556 www.osvdb.org
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980403-01-PX Patch, Vendor Advisory
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19980403-02-PX Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/809.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/8556 www.osvdb.org