CVE-2007-0166

Severity

65%

Complexity

27%

Confidentiality

165%

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink attack.

The jail rc.d script in FreeBSD 5.3 up to 6.2 does not verify pathnames when writing to /var/log/console.log during a jail start-up, or when file systems are mounted or unmounted, which allows local root users to overwrite arbitrary files, or mount/unmount files, outside of the jail via a symlink attack.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2007-01-11 20:28:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-11-15 06:39:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

FreeBSD

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