CVE-2004-0880

Severity

12%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

48%

getmail 4.x before 4.2.0, when run as root, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

getmail 4.x before 4.2.0, when run as root, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on an mbox file.

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

First reported 20 years ago

2005-01-27 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Gentoo Linux 1.4

1.4

Slackware Linux 9.1

9.1

Slackware Linux 10.0

10.0

Slackware Linux current

current

References

20040919 Local root compromise possible with getmail

GLSA-200409-32

DSA-553

http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-4/CHANGELOG

getmail-mbox-race-condition(17437)

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