CVE-1999-1492: Sgi Irix

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Vulnerability in (1) diskperf and (2) diskalign in IRIX 6.4 allows local attacker to create arbitrary root owned files, leading to root privileges.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.4 only

Published 1998-05-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.