National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0618
Original release date:05/04/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Multiple vulnerabilities in suidperl 5.6.1 and earlier allow a local user to obtain sensitive information about files for which the user does not have appropriate permissions.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
- Official Statement from Red Hat (09/19/2006)
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Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114923
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/
This issue does not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-431
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: suidperl-obtain-information(15012)
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 9543
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203426