xterm in Digital UNIX 4.0B *with* patch kit 5 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a core dump file, which is created when xterm is called with a DISPLAY environmental variable set to a display that xterm cannot access.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2017-12-18T21:57:01
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1210
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 1997-11-12T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2017-12-19T02:29:03.457
Link: CVE-1999-1210
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