CVE-2004-0233 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0233
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/15904 SLACKWARE http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.404389 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-175.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-174.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/oval/definitions/data/oval979.html MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:031 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-05.xml BID 10178

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