CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1187

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1996-08-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1996-08-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

Affected configurations

• university of washington pine (<= 3.94) • freebsd freebsd 2.1.0 • slackware slackware linux 3.0

References