Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-1999-1498. PoCs published by neonhaze.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in pkgtool to overwrite arbitrary files, including /etc/passwd, by creating a symlink from /tmp/reply to a target file. When root runs pkgtool, the target file is overwritten with the contents of /tmp/reply, allowing privilege escalation.
Description
Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.
Exploits (1)
This exploit leverages a symbolic link vulnerability in pkgtool to overwrite arbitrary files, including /etc/passwd, by creating a symlink from /tmp/reply to a target file. When root runs pkgtool, the target file is overwritten with the contents of /tmp/reply, allowing privilege escalation.