National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0971
Original release date:02/09/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The krb5-send-pr script in the kerberos5 (krb5) 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.
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 modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.
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External Source: BID
Name: 11289
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200410-24
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: script-temporary-file-overwrite(17583)
Type: Advisory
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2004-0050
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:012
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136304