CVE

Id
1379  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-1399  
Status
Candidate  
Description
spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.  
Phase
Proposed (20010912)  
Votes
ACCEPT(1) Cole | MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(1) Foat  
Comments
Frech> XF:spaceware-hostname-command-execution(7194)