Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 15, 2002· Updated Apr 16, 2026
CVE-1999-1091
CVE-1999-1091
Description
UNIX news readers tin and rtin create the /tmp/.tin_log file with insecure permissions and follow symlinks, which allows attackers to modify the permissions of files writable by the user via a symlink attack.
Affected products
2Patches
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