CVE-1999-1407

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

ifdhcpc-done script for configuring DHCP on Red Hat Linux 5 allows local users to append text to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dhcplog file.

ifdhcpc-done script for configuring DHCP on Red Hat Linux 5 allows local users to append text to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the dhcplog file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-03-09 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:04:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.0

5.0

References

19980309 *sigh* another RH5 /tmp problem

initscripts-ifdhcpdone-dhcplog-symlink(7294)

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh50-errata-general.html#initscripts

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