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CVE-1999-1498

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-04-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Slackware Linux 3.4 pkgtool allows local attacker to read and write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the reply file.

Affected products

• Slackware Linux: 3.4

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82

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