CVE-1999-1410

Summary

CVE-1999-1410 is a vulnerability affecting addnetpr in IRIX 5.3 and 6.2. This issue permits local users to manipulate the printers temporary file through a symlink attack. By overwriting arbitrary files, an attacker could potentially elevate their privileges to root level access. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running the affected versions of IRIX and should be addressed promptly by implementing the available patches.

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