3.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1753

Published: 18/04/2006 Updated: 20/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.6 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 320
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

A cron job in fcheck prior to 2.7.59 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file.

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Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that a cronjob contained in fcheck, a file integrity checker, creates a temporary file in an insecure fashion The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2759-7sarge1 For the unstable d ...