CVE-1999-0491

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Bash
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 April 1999

Summary

The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pike?list=...
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/security/CSSA-...
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CALDERA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/119
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

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