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...

SGI IRIX 6.4 - 'rmail' Local Privilege Escalation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/460/info A vulnerability exists in the rmail utility, included by SGI with it's Irix operating system. By failing to sanity check the contents of an environment variable, arbitrary commands may be executed with gid mail. rmail is used with uucp. The...