CVE-1999-1468

Summary

CVECVE-1999-1468
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published1991-10-22 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2008-09-10 19:01:00 UTC
Descriptionrdist in various UNIX systems uses popen to execute sendmail, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.0 All All All
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.0e All All All
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.1 All All All
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.0 All All All
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.0e All All All
Operating System Cray Unicos 6.1 All All All
Application Next Next 2.0 All All All
Application Next Next 2.1 All All All
Application Next Next 2.0 All All All
Application Next Next 2.1 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.1 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.2 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.3 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 4.0 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.1 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.2 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 3.3.3 All All All
Operating System Sgi Irix 4.0 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.0.3 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.0.3c All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1psr_a All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.0.3 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.0.3c All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1.1 All All All
Operating System Sun Sunos 4.1psr_a All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1991 CERT Advisories CERT www.cert.org Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
[8lgm]-Advisory-1.UNIX.rdist.23-Apr-1991 MISC www.alw.nih.gov
ISS X-Force Database: rdist-popen-gain-privileges (7160): /usr/ucb/rdist `popen` allows user to gain root privileges XF www.iss.net
8106 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
Multiple Vendor rdist(1) Vulnerability (1991) BID www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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