CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1486

1.2 LOW Published 1998-02-25 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-02-25
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.2 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

sadc in IBM AIX 4.1 through 4.3, when called from programs such as timex that are setgid adm, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected configurations

• ibm aix 4.1 • ibm aix 4.1.1 • ibm aix 4.1.2 • ibm aix 4.1.3 • ibm aix 4.1.4 • ibm aix 4.1.5 • ibm aix 4.2 • ibm aix 4.2.1 • ibm aix 4.3

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