CVE-2001-1102 (GCVE-0-2001-1102)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:44
VLAI
Summary
Check Point FireWall-1 3.0b through 4.1 for Solaris allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary policy files that end in a .cpp extension, which are set world-writable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3300 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/212824 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2001-09-08 00:00
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