CVE-2007-5200 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

32%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

81%

hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary file.

hugin, as used on various operating systems including SUSE openSUSE 10.2 and 10.3, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the hugin_debug_optim_results.txt temporary file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

OpenSUSE

First reported 17 years ago

2007-10-14 18:17:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 10.2

10.2

OpenSUSE 10.3

10.3

References

42224

27229

Vendor Advisory

27623

Vendor Advisory

27653

Vendor Advisory

27952

Vendor Advisory

GLSA-200712-01

SUSE-SR:2007:020

26730

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332401

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362851

FEDORA-2007-2989

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