CVE-1999-1501

Medium CVSS 4.6

Published 1998-04-08 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1501, 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

(1) ipxchk and (2) ipxlink in SGI OS2 IRIX 6.3 does not properly clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1501

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