Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1398 - Unspecified vulnerability in SGI Irix

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

HIGH

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

COMPLETE

Integrity impact

COMPLETE

Availability impact

COMPLETE

local

high complexity

exploit available

NVD

Published: 1997-05-07

Updated: 2016-10-18

Summary

Vulnerability in xfsdump in SGI IRIX may allow local users to obtain root privileges via the bck.log log file, possibly via a symlink attack.

Part	Description	Count
OS	Sgi SGI Irix 5.0 SGI Irix 5.0.1 SGI Irix 5.1 SGI Irix 5.1.1 SGI Irix 5.2 SGI Irix 5.3 SGI Irix 6.0 SGI Irix 6.0.1 SGI Irix 6.1 SGI Irix 6.2 SGI Irix 6.3 SGI Irix 6.4	14

description	SGI IRIX 6.4 xfsdump Vulnerability. CVE-1999-1398. Local exploit for irix platform
id	EDB-ID:19358
last seen	2016-02-02
modified	1997-05-07
published	1997-05-07
reporter	Yuri Volobuev
source	https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19358/
title	SGI IRIX <= 6.4 xfsdump Vulnerability