CVE-1999-1095 Information

Description

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87619953510834&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88886870129518&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=88890116304676&w=2