CVE-2005-3321

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions.

chkstat in SuSE Linux 9.0 through 10.0 allows local users to modify permissions of files by creating a hardlink to a file from a world-writable directory, which can cause the link count to drop to 1 when the file is deleted or replaced, which is then modified by chkstat to use weaker permissions.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-10-27 10:02:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

Novell SUSE Linux 10.0

10.0

SuSE SuSE Linux 9.0

9.0

SuSE SuSE Linux 9.1

9.1

SuSE SuSE Linux 9.2

9.2

SuSE SuSE Linux 9.3

9.3

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