CVE-1999-1210: Digital Unix

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

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.

Affected products

• Digital Unix: version 4.0b only

Published 1997-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.