CVE-2004-0968

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The catchsegv script in glibc 2.3.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

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

2005-02-09 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.0

2.0

GNU glibc 2.0.1

2.0.1

GNU glibc 2.0.2

2.0.2

GNU glibc 2.0.3

2.0.3

GNU glibc 2.0.4

2.0.4

GNU glibc 2.0.5

2.0.5

GNU glibc 2.0.6

2.0.6

GNU glibc 2.1

2.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1

2.1.1

GNU glibc 2.1.1.6

2.1.1.6

GNU glibc 2.1.2

2.1.2

GNU glibc 2.1.3

2.1.3

GNU glibc 2.1.3.10

2.1.3.10

GNU glibc 2.1.9

2.1.9

GNU glibc 2.2

2.2

GNU glibc 2.2.1

2.2.1

GNU glibc 2.2.2

2.2.2

GNU glibc 2.2.3

2.2.3

GNU glibc 2.2.4

2.2.4

GNU glibc 2.2.5

2.2.5

GNU glibc 2.3

2.3

GNU glibc 2.3.1

2.3.1

GNU glibc 2.3.2

2.3.2

GNU glibc 2.3.3

2.3.3

GNU glibc 2.3.4

2.3.4

GNU glibc 2.3.10

2.3.10

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136318

GLSA-200410-19

DSA-636

RHSA-2004:586

RHSA-2005:261

11286

Patch, Vendor Advisory

2004-0050

script-temporary-file-overwrite(17583)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9523

USN-4-1

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