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CVE-2003-0885

Published

20 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: Medium
Base Score: 6.4/10
Exploit Score: 10/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 4.9/10
Confidentiality Impact: None
Availability Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:xscreensaver:xscreensaver:4.14:::::::*	Yes	-	-

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286