CVE-2001-1256

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and (2) /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files.

kmmodreg in HP-UX 11.11, 11.04 and 11.00 allows local users to create arbitrary world-writeable files via a symlink attack on the (1) /tmp/.kmmodreg_lock and (2) /tmp/kmpath.tmp temporary files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

HP-UX

First reported 23 years ago

2001-06-11 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

HP-UX 11.00

11.00

HP HP-UX 11.04

11.04

HP-UX 11.11

11.11

References

L-093

Patch, Vendor Advisory

HPSBUX0106-153

Vendor Advisory

VU#127435

US Government Resource

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/TJSL-4Z5Q92

US Government Resource

20010604 yet another sym link followers

Vendor Advisory

2821

hpux-kmmodreg-symlink(6656)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5628

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