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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-1380 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:03.183Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-1999-1399

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1997-08-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1399

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