CVE-2004-1167 (GCVE-0-2004-1167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-12-10 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:39
VLAI
Summary
mirrorselect before 0.89 creates temporary files in a world-writable location with predictable file names, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20041… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/13392/ third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2004-12-07 00:00
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