CVE-1999-0959: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IRIX startmidi program allows local users to modify arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.1 only; version 6.2 only; version 6.3 only; …

Published 1997-02-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.