CVE-1999-1499 Information

Description

named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on (1) named_dump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT or (2) named.stats when SIGIOT is used.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/8966 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80