CVE-1999-1498: Slackware Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

Affected products

• Slackware Slackware Linux: version 3.4 only

Published 1998-04-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.