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  
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