CVE-1999-1210

High CVSS 7.2

Published 1997-11-12 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1210, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1210

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C