CVE-1999-1492

Summary

CVE-1999-1492 is a security vulnerability affecting IRIX 6.4 operating system. This issue impacts both the diskperf and diskalign utilities. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to create arbitrary root-owned files, ultimately resulting in the acquisition of root privileges. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running IRIX 6.4 and requires immediate attention and patching to mitigate potential security breaches.

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