CVE-1999-1461

SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'inpview' Local Privilege Escalation

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Record summary

CVE-1999-1461 has a selected CVSS score of 7.2; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

inpview in InPerson on IRIX 5.3 through IRIX 6.5.10 trusts the PATH environmental variable to find and execute the ttsession program, which allows local users to obtain root access by modifying the PATH to point to a Trojan horse ttsession program.

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Exploitation context

Available material

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Proofs of concept

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Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBSGI IRIX 6.4 - 'inpview' Local Privilege EscalationExploitDB exploitby Yuri VolobuevNot analyzed1 file
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