National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0885
Original release date:12/31/2003
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Xscreensaver 4.14 contains certain debugging code that should have been omitted, which causes Xscreensaver to create temporary files insecurely in the (1) apple2, (2) xanalogtv, and (3) pong screensavers, and allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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This issue did not affect the versions of Xscreensaver as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41253
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182286
Type: Advisory
