CVE-1999-1410: Sgi Irix

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

addnetpr in IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and possibly gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the printers temporary file.

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 1997-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.