CVE-1999-1399 Information

Description

spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=87602746719552&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/471