Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in KDE K-Mail by KDE
CVE-1999-0735

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Kde

Status
K-mail
Vendor
CVE Published:
4 January 2000

What is CVE-1999-0735?

KDE K-Mail suffers from a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows local users to exploit symlink attacks in temporary user directories, potentially gaining elevated permissions within the system. Proper management of temporary directories is essential to mitigate this risk.

References

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA1999015_01.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/300
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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