CVE
- Id
- 1190
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1210
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Cole, Foat
- Comments