CVE-1999-1139

HP-UX < 11.00 - Arbitrary File Write and Privilege Escalation via IOERROR.mytty Symlink

Title source: llm

Description

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory, URL Repurposed vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp

http://www.codetalker.com/advisories/vendor/hp/hpsbux9801-074.html

Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/2007.php

Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199801/0122.html

Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602880019745&w=2

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory government-resource x_refsource_ciac

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-027b.shtml

Scores

EPSS 0.0013

EPSS Percentile 31.8%

Details

Status published

Products (1)

hp/hp-ux < 11.00

Published Sep 01, 1997

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026