CVE-2004-0972 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0972
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Description: The lvmcreate_initrd script in the lvm package in Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to overwrite files via a symlink attack on temporary files.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/17583 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2004/0050 REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-232.html CONFIRM http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136308 BID 11290

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