CVE-1999-1210

Publication date

2001-09-12 08:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.