CVE-1999-1091 (GCVE-0-1999-1091)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:02
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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