CVE-1999-1399

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...

CVE-1999-1399

SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 on IRIX 6.2 is affected by CVE-1999-1399. A local attacker can gain root privileges by placing commands in the HOSTNAME environment variable, which is then executed with elevated privileges. Affected component: spaceball/SpaceWare host-name handling; root-level impact is stated...