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CVE-1999-1422

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CVE-1999-1422

Published: Sep 12, 2001

Modified: Aug 1, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The default configuration of Slackware 3.4, and possibly other versions, includes . (dot, the current directory) in the PATH environmental variable, which could allow local users to create Trojan horse programs that are inadvertently executed by other users.

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affected
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References

19990102 PATH variable in zip-slackware 2.0.35
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