Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1399 - Unspecified vulnerability in SGI Irix 6.2

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
sgi
exploit available
NVD
Published: 1997-08-20
Updated: 2016-10-18

Summary

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Sgi
1

Exploit-Db

descriptionSGI IRIX 6.2 SpaceWare Vulnerability. CVE-1999-1399 . Dos exploit for irix platform
idEDB-ID:19357
last seen2016-02-02
modified1996-10-30
published1996-10-30
reporterJ.A. Guitierrez
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/19357/
titleSGI IRIX 6.2 SpaceWare Vulnerability

References