CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1422

7.2 HIGH Published 1999-01-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-01-02
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

The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . (dot, the current directory) in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users.

Affected configurations

• slackware slackware linux 2.0.35 • slackware slackware linux 3.4

References