CVE-1999-1490

Summary

CVE-1999-1490 is a vulnerability affecting xosview 1.5.1 in Red Hat 5.1. This issue allows local users to manipulate the length of their HOME environmental variable, resulting in a stack overflow. Successful exploitation grants the attacker root access to the system. This vulnerability poses a significant security risk, as it enables unauthorized escalation of privileges. It is highly recommended that affected systems be updated to a patched version of xosview as soon as possible.

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