CVE-1999-1494: Sgi Irix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

colorview in Silicon Graphics IRIX 5.1, 5.2, and 6.0 allows local attackers to read arbitrary files via the -text argument.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only

Published 1994-08-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.