National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-2210
Original release date:12/31/2002
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The installation of OpenOffice 1.0.1 allows local users to overwrite files and possibly gain privileges via a symlink attack on the USERNAME_autoresponse.conf temporary file.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the RPM packages of OpenOffice as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.
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External Source: BID
Name: 5950
External Source: XF
Name: openofficeorg-tmpfile-symlink(10346)
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20021011 OpenOffice 1.0.1 Race condition during installation.
