CVE-1999-1468

Medium CVSS 6.2

Published 1991-10-22 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1468, 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

rdist in various UNIX systems uses popen to execute sendmail, which allows local users to gain root privileges by modifying the IFS (Internal Field Separator) variable.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1468

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