CVE-2002-1791: Sgi Irix

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SGI IRIX 6.5 through 6.5.17 creates temporary desktop files with world-writable permissions, which allows local users to overwrite or corrupt those files.

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 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.