CVE-1999-1399 (GCVE-0-1999-1399)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:11
VLAI?
Summary
spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602746719552&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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