CVE-1999-1186

Publication date

2001-09-12 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

rxvt, when compiled with the PRINT_PIPE option in various Linux operating systems including Linux Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 2.1, allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a malicious program using the -print-pipe command line parameter.