CVE-1999-1095: Red Hat Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sort creates temporary files and follows symbolic links, which allows local users to modify arbitrary files that are writable by the user running sort, as observed in updatedb and other programs that use sort.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 4.1 only
• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.3 only

Published 1997-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.