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CVE-2003-1294 (GCVE-0-2003-1294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-28 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:19
VLAI
Summary
Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://secunia.com/advisories/20224 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9125 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advis… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
http://secunia.com/advisories/20456 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/90_i… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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Date Public
2003-11-28 00:00
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  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.