Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1091
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
NONE Summary
UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 | |
| Application | 1 |