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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 26, 1996· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-1187

CVE-1999-1187

Description

Pine before version 3.94 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a lockfile that is created when a user receives new mail.

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Affected products

3

University of Washington/Pine
cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=3.94
FreeBSD/FreeBSD
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Slackware/Linux
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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