spaceball program in SpaceWare 7.3 v1.0 in IRIX 6.2 allows local users to gain root privileges by setting the HOSTNAME environmental variable to contain the commands to be executed.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:03.183Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1399

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 1997-08-20T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-1999-1399

cve-icon Redhat

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