CVE-2002-1516: Sgi Irix

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rpcbind in SGI IRIX, when using the -w command line switch, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Affected products

• Sgi Irix: version 6.5 only; version 6.5.1 only; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; …

Published 2003-04-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.