CVE-2012-3329 (GCVE-0-2012-3329)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-12-19 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
VLAI
Summary
IBM Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) through 3.62 and 3.70 through 9.21 and Bootable Media Creator (BoMC) through 2.30 and 3.00 through 9.21 on Linux allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) temporary file or (2) log file.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
ibm
References
Date Public
2012-12-14 00:00
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