CVE-1999-1183

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 1998-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

System Manager sysmgr GUI in SGI IRIX 6.4 and 6.3 allows remote attackers to execute commands by providing a trojan horse (1) runtask or (2) runexec descriptor file, which is used to execute a System Manager Task when the user's Mailcap entry supports the x-sgi-task or x-sgi-exec type.

Affected products

Sgi Irix: 6.3, 6.4

References

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/809.php
http://www.osvdb.org/8556
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/809.php
http://www.osvdb.org/8556

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