CVE-1999-0781 (GCVE-0-1999-0781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-04-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:48
VLAI
Summary
KDE allows local users to execute arbitrary commands by setting the KDEDIR environmental variable to modify the search path that KDE uses to locate its executables.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=91141486301691&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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