CVE-1999-1210

HIGH
CVSS v3
7.2CVSS v2
0.04% EPSS (exploit probability)
CWE

Description

xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.

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