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CVE-1999-1399

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 1997-08-20 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Affected Platforms

Sgi Irix

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References