CVE-2004-0422

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

flim before 1.14.3 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files of the Emacs user via a symlink attack.

flim before 1.14.3 creates temporary files insecurely, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files of the Emacs user 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 20 years ago

2004-07-07 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

GNU flim

References

DSA-500

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2004:344

flim-insecure-temporary-file(16027)

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