CVE-2001-1066

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

ns6install installation script for Netscape 6.01 on Solaris, and other versions including 6.2.1 beta, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

ns6install installation script for Netscape 6.01 on Solaris, and other versions including 6.2.1 beta, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

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 23 years ago

2001-08-31 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-03 01:29:00

Affected Software

Sun Solaris

References

20010827 Dangerous temp file creation during installation of Netscape 6.

20010827 Dangerous temp file creation during installation of Netscape 6.

3243

Vendor Advisory

netscape-install-tmpfile-symlink(7042)

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