CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1210

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-11-12
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

xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.

Affected configurations

• digital unix 4.0b

References