CVE-1999-1565

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

Man2html 2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

Man2html 2.1 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-08-20 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:19:00

Affected Software

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

4.0

References

6291

19990820 [SECURITY] New versions of man2html fixes postinst glitch

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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