CVE-1999-1288: Caldera Openlinux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Samba 1.9.18 inadvertently includes a prototype application, wsmbconf, which is installed with incorrect permissions including the setgid bit, which allows local users to read and write files and possibly gain privileges via bugs in the program.

Affected products

• Caldera Openlinux: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only
• Red Hat Linux: any version
• Samba Samba: version 1.9.18 only
• Turbolinux Turbolinux: any version

Published 1998-11-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.