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Overview
Vulnerability Score	2.1
CVE Id	CVE-1999-1496
Last Modified	05 Sep 2008 04:19:39
Published	08 Jun 1999 12:00:00
Confidentiality Impact	PARTIAL
Integrity Impact	NONE
Availability Impact	NONE
Access Vector	LOCAL
Access Complexity	LOW
Authentication	NONE

CVE-1999-1496

Summary

Sudo 1.5 in Debian Linux 2.1 and Red Hat 6.0 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files by attempting to execute the target filename as a program, which generates a different error message when the file does not exist.