CVE-2004-0689
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-08-19 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:24
Severity ?
Summary
KDE before 3.3.0 does not properly handle when certain symbolic links point to "stale" locations, which could allow local users to create or truncate arbitrary files.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000864Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225538901170&w=2Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/12276/Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-13.xmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-539Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16963Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9334Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000864Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109225538901170&w=2Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/12276/Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200408-13.xmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-539Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20040811-1.txtPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16963Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9334Broken Link
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