CVE-1999-1102 Information

Description

lpr on SunOS 4.1.1 BSD 4.3 A/UX 2.0.1 and other BSD-based operating systems allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack that is triggered after invoking lpr 1000 times.

Reference

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/e-25.shtml http://www.aenigma.net/resources/maillist/bugtraq/1994/0091.htm http://www.phreak.org/archives/security/8lgm/8lgm.lpr