FKIE_CVE-2004-0233
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2004-08-18 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:05
Severity
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.
References
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