CVE-1999-1210

Published: 1997-11-12

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.

Severity

Overall Severity: N/A

CVSS Metrics

Type Score Severity Vector

Affected Products

digital - unix

Affected Versions:

References

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