CVE

Id
1479  
CVE No.
CVE-1999-1499  
Status
Candidate  
Description
named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on (1) named_dump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT, or (2) named.stats when SIGIOT is used.  
Phase
Proposed (20010912)  
Votes
MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(2) Cole, Wall | REJECT(1) Foat  
Comments
Foat> The files get written to /var/named which the user does not have write | access. | Frech> XF:bind-sigint-sigiot-symlink(7366)