CVEvulnerability
CVE-1999-1468
6.2 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 1991-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
rdist in various UNIX systems uses popen to execute sendmail, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable.
Affected configurations
• next next 2.0
• next next 2.1
• sgi irix 3.3
• sgi irix 3.3.1
• sgi irix 3.3.2
• sgi irix 3.3.3
• sgi irix 4.0
• cray unicos 6.0
• cray unicos 6.0e
• cray unicos 6.1
• sun sunos 4.0.3
• sun sunos 4.0.3c
• sun sunos 4.1
• sun sunos 4.1.1
• sun sunos 4.1psr a
References
- http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/8lgm/8lgm-Advisory-01.html www.alw.nih.gov
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-91.20.rdist.vulnerability Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7160.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/8106 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.alw.nih.gov/Security/8lgm/8lgm-Advisory-01.html www.alw.nih.gov
- http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-91.20.rdist.vulnerability Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7160.php www.iss.net
- http://www.osvdb.org/8106 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31 Patch, Vendor Advisory