CVE-2002-0178 (GCVE-0-2002-0178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:42
VLAI
Summary
uudecode, as available in the sharutils package before 4.2.1, does not check whether the filename of the uudecoded file is a pipe or symbolic link, which could allow attackers to overwrite files or execute commands.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/336083 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://www.osvdb.org/8274 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
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Date Public
2002-05-14 00:00
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