CVE-1999-1183: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

System Manager sysmgr GUI in SGI IRIX 6.4 and 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing a trojan horse (1) runtask or (2) runexec descriptor file, which is used to execute a System Manager Task when the user's Mailcap entry supports the x-sgi-task or x-sgi-exec type.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.3 only; version 6.4 only

Published 1998-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.