CVE-1999-1095

The CVE-1999-1095 entry concerns the sort utility. It describes that sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, enabling a local user to modify arbitrary files writable by the user running sort. This impact is observed in updatedb and other programs that invoke sort. The documents d...

CVE-1999-1095

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort...