CVE-1999-1091 Information

Description

UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419835&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167419839&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602167420726&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/431