CVE-1999-1186: Undefined Security Weakness

rxvt, when compiled with the PRINTPIPE option in various Linux operating systems including Linux Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 2.1, allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a malicious program using the -print-pipe command line parameter...

rxvt.sh

There is a major security hole in rxvt, a terminal emulator for X, when it is run on systems suid root, as is required on many configurations in order to write to the utmp file. It is obvious from the code that this program was not written to be run suid root, its a pity that sysadmins that insta...