CVE-2004-1895 (GCVE-0-2004-1895)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-05-10 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:07
VLAI
Summary
YaST Online Update (YOU) in SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on you-$USER/cookies.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/11300 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securitytracker.com/id?1009668 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.osvdb.org/4985 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10047 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2004-04-05 00:00
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