CVE-2004-0233 (GCVE-0-2004-0233)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-05-05 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 00:10
VLAI
Summary
Utempter allows device names that contain .. (dot dot) directory traversal sequences, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on device names in combination with an application that trusts the utmp or wtmp files.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetk… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERT
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-174.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=sl… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWARE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-05.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10178 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-175.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2004-04-30 00:00
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