6.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2002-0658

Published: 12/08/2002 Updated: 04/09/2013
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 1.9
VMScore: 625
Vector: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

OSSP mm library (libmm) prior to 1.2.0 allows the local Apache user to gain privileges via temporary files, possibly via a symbolic link attack.

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ossp mm 1.0.0

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ossp mm 1.0.12

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ossp mm 1.1.0

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ossp mm 1.1.1

ossp mm 1.1.2

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ossp mm 1.0.11

ossp mm 1.0.7

ossp mm 1.0.8

Vendor Advisories

Marcus Meissner and Sebastian Krahmer discovered and fixed a temporary file vulnerability in the mm shared memory library This problem can be exploited to gain root access to a machine running Apache which is linked against this library, if shell access to the user “www-data” is already available (which could easily be triggered through PHP) ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/5352/info The MM Shared Memory library is reported to be prone to a race condition with regards to temporary files which may enable a local attacker to gain elevated privileges This issue may reportedly be exploited by an attacker with shell access as the Apache webserver user to gain root privileges on a ...