CVE-1999-1501

Summary

CVE-1999-1501 is a vulnerability affecting the ipxchk and ipxlink utilities in SGI OS2 IRIX 6.3. The issue lies in the failure to clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls. This oversight permits local users to inject arbitrary commands, exploiting the vulnerability and potentially gaining unauthorized access to the system.

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