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CVE-1999-1095 |
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| Description | ||
| sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort. | ||
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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) | ||
| Proposed (20010912) | ||
| Votes (Legacy) | ||
| MODIFY(1) Frech NOOP(3) Christey, Cole, Foat |
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| Comments (Legacy) | ||
Frech> XF:sort-tmp-file-symlink(7182) Christey> This issue clearly has a long history. CALDERA:CSSA-2002-SCO.21 URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2002-q2/0018.html CALDERA:CSSA-2002-SCO.2 URL:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/linux/caldera/2002-q1/0002.html (There are 2 Caldera advisories because one is for Open UNIX and UnixWare, and the other is for OpenServer) XF:openserver-sort-symlink(9218) URL:http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9218.php |
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| Proposed (Legacy) | ||
| 20010912 | ||
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