Published: 12/03/2001 Updated: 10/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.2 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 107

Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

exmh 2.2 and previous versions allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the exmhErrorMsg temporary file.

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Former versions of the exmh program used /tmp for storing temporary files No checks were made to ensure that nobody placed a symlink with the same name in /tmp in the meantime and thus was vulnerable to a symlink attack This could lead to a malicious local user being able to overwrite any file writable by the user executing exmh Upstream develop ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-015.php3 http://www.beedub.com/exmh/symlink.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/freebsd/2001-01/0543.html http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-022 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97846489313059&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=97958594330100&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5829 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-022

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