CVE-1999-1139

N/A
Published: March 9, 2002 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:49 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorHP Ux

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%

Description

Character-Terminal User Environment (CUE) in HP-UX 11.0 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the IOERROR.mytty file.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 11.00

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (5)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQPatchVendor Advisory
http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-199801/0122.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/i-027b.shtml
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_HPPatchURL Repurposed
http://www.codetalker.com/advisories/vendor/hp/hpsbux9801-074.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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