CVE-1999-1486

The CVE-1999-1486 issue affects IBM AIX 4.1–4.3, where the sadc tool, when invoked by programs such as timex that run setgid adm, can be exploited locally to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack. The root cause is a symlink race condition in sadc that can be triggered by untrusted file ...

CVE-1999-1486

sadc in IBM AIX 4.1 through 4.3, when called from programs such as timex that are setgid adm, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack...