CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1399

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-08-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-08-20
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

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Affected configurations

• sgi irix 6.2

References