CVE-1999-1095

First published: Mon Oct 06 1997(Updated: )

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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