Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1422

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-01 17:11:03
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . (dot, the current directory) in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users.