CVE-ID

CVE-1999-1286
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Description
addnetpr in SGI IRIX 6.2 and earlier allows local users to modify arbitrary files and possibly gain root access via a symlink attack on a temporary file.
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20010831 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Modified (20060623)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(1) Frech
NOOP(3) Christey, Cole, Foat
Comments (Legacy) 
 Christey> CHANGE DESC: "via a symlink attack on the printers temporary file."
   Add 5.3 as another affected version.
   
   MISC:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/19961203-02-PX
   SGI:19961203-02-PX may solve this problem, but the advisory is so
   vague that it is uncertain whether this was fixed or not. addnetpr is
   not specifically named in the advisory, which names netprint, which is
   not specified in the original Bugtraq post. In addition, the date on
   the advisory is one day earlier than that of the Bugtraq post, though
   that could be a difference in time zones. It seems plausible that the
   problem had already been patched (the researcher did say "There *was*
   [a] race condition") so maybe SGI released this advisory after the
   problem was publicized.
   
   ADDREF BID:330
   URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/330
   
   Note: this is a dupe of CVE-1999-1410, but CVE-1999-1410 will
   be rejected in favor of CVE-1999-1286.
Proposed (Legacy)
20010912
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