CVE-1999-1499 - named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on (1) named_dump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT, or (2) named.stats when SIGIOT is used

named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on (1) named_dump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT, or (2) named.stats when SIGIOT is used

Published Sep 12, 2001

No CVSS score

EPSS 0.69%

Description

named in ISC BIND 4.9 and 8.1 allows local users to destroy files via a symlink attack on (1) named_dump.db when root kills the process with a SIGINT, or (2) named.stats when SIGIOT is used.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (2)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/8966
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/8966		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 12, 2001

Updated Aug 1, 2024

Reserved Aug 31, 2001

Link CVE-1999-1499

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-1999-1499

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-1999-1499