CVE-1999-1398: Sgi Irix

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in xfsdump in SGI IRIX may allow local users to obtain root privileges via the bck.log log file, possibly via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; …

Published 1997-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.