CVE-1999-1498

Low CVSS 3.6

Published 1998-04-06 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1498, 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

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1498

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