Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-1999-1210 First vendor Publication 1997-11-12
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-12-19

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-1210

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
8762 Digital Unix xterm DISPLAY Variable Symlink Arbitrary File Overwrite

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BUGTRAQ http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87936891504885&w=2
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/613

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2017-12-19 09:22:03
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