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CVE-1999-1091

Medium
5/10

Summary

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published