CVE-2004-1808 (GCVE-0-2004-1808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2005-05-10 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:07
VLAI
Summary
Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107910934926062&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9850 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2004-03-12 00:00
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