CVE-2003-1294 (GCVE-0-2003-1294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-02-28 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:19
VLAI
Summary
Xscreensaver before 4.15 creates temporary files insecurely in (1) driver/passwd-kerberos.c, (2) driver/xscreensaver-getimage-video, (3) driver/xscreensaver.kss.in, and the (4) vidwhacker and (5) webcollage screensavers, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 976 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/20782 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-04… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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http://secunia.com/advisories/20224 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9125 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advis… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SGI
http://secunia.com/advisories/20456 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/90_i… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://jwz.livejournal.com/310943.html x_refsource_MISC
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Date Public
2003-11-28 00:00
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