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CVE-2004-0233

CVE information

Published

18 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Low

Impact Analysis

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Description

Utempter allows device names that contain .. (dot dot) directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Low
Base Score
2.1/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
None
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:utempter:utempter:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:utempter:utempter:0.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:sgi:propack:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:slackware:slackware_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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