CVE-1999-1501: Sgi Irix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

(1) ipxchk and (2) ipxlink in SGI OS2 IRIX 6.3 does not properly clear the IFS environmental variable before executing system calls, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.3 only

Published 1998-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.