Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-0959. PoCs published by David Hedley.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in the setuid root program 'startmidi' on Irix systems to create or overwrite arbitrary files with root ownership. The attack involves creating a symbolic link to a target file and invoking 'startmidi' to write to it, bypassing permission checks.
Description
IRIX startmidi program allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in the setuid root program 'startmidi' on Irix systems to create or overwrite arbitrary files with root ownership. The attack involves creating a symbolic link to a target file and invoking 'startmidi' to write to it, bypassing permission checks.