Published: 09/06/2003 Updated: 11/10/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

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

lv reads a .lv file from the current working directory, which allows local users to execute arbitrary commands as other lv users by placing malicious .lv files into other directories.

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lv lv 4.49.3
lv lv 4.49.4
redhat lv 4.49.4-9
lv lv 4.49.1
lv lv 4.49.2
redhat lv 4.49.4-1
redhat lv 4.49.4-3
redhat lv 4.49.4-7
redhat linux 7.3
redhat linux 8.0
redhat linux 7.1
redhat linux 7.2
redhat linux 9.0

Leonard Stiles discovered that lv, a multilingual file viewer, would read options from a configuration file in the current directory Because such a file could be placed there by a malicious user, and lv configuration options can be used to execute commands, this represented a security vulnerability An attacker could gain the privileges of the use ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-169.html http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-304 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-167.html http://www.turbolinux.com/security/TLSA-2003-35.txt https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A430 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-304

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