PT-1996-1054 · Washington University · Pine

Published 1996-08-26 · Updated 2017-12-19 · CVE-1999-1187

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Pine versions prior to 3.94

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.94, update to version 3.94 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-1999-1187

Affected Products

Pine

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1187 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/416 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419803&w=2 · Note