CVE-2001-0946

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

apmscript in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 "Enigma" allows local users to create or change the modification dates of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the LOW_POWER temporary file, which could be used to cause a denial of service, e.g. by creating /etc/nologin and disabling logins.

apmscript in Apmd in Red Hat 7.2 "Enigma" allows local users to create or change the modification dates of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the LOW_POWER temporary file, which could be used to cause a denial of service, e.g. by creating /etc/nologin and disabling logins.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-12-04 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 7.2

7.2

References

20011204 Symlink attack with apmd of RH 7.2

5493

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56389

Vendor Advisory

apmd-apmscript-symlink(8268)

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