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CVE-1999-1210

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 1997-11-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Digital Unix

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References