CVE-1999-0965 (GCVE-0-1999-0965)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2000-01-04 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 16:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Race condition in xterm allows local users to modify arbitrary files via the logging option.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | x_refsource_MISC |
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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