CVE-2004-1895

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.

YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.

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

Type

SuSE SuSE Linux

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

SuSE SuSE Linux 8.2

8.2

SuSE SuSE Linux 9.0

9.0

References

20040406 Re: SuSEs YaST Online Update - possible symlink attack

20040405 SuSEs YaST Online Update - possible symlink attack

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suse-you-symlink(15731)

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